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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 9:43

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Acts 9:43 (WEB)

He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.

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  • ““But Paul too was, in fact, ‘speedily’ baptized:” for Simon, his host, speedily recognized him to be “an appointed vessel of election.”” — editor's note: Tertullian seems to have confused the “Judas” with whom Saul stayed (Acts ix. 11) with the “Simon” with whom St. Peter stayed (Acts ix. 43); and it was…

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  • “For they both raised the dead, which God alone (can do), and restored the debilitated to their integrity, which none but Christ (can do); nay, they inflicted plagues too, which Christ would not do.” — editor's note: Comp. Acts ix. 36–43; xx. 9–12.

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