Acts 10:6

6 He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

Acts 10:6 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
English Standard Version (ESV)
6 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."
New Living Translation (NLT)
6 He is staying with Simon, a tanner who lives near the seashore.”
The Message Bible (MSG)
6 He is staying with Simon the Tanner, whose house is down by the sea."
American Standard Version (ASV)
6 he lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
6 He is a guest of Simon, a leatherworker, whose house is by the sea."
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
6 He is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
6 He is staying with another Simon, a man who works with leather. His house is by the sea."

Acts 10:6 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:6

He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner,
&c] Simon the tanner was his host; this man very probably was a good man, and one that lodged strangers; of his trade, (See Gill on Acts 9:43)

whose house is by the sea side;
Joppa was a sea port, ( 2 Chronicles 2:16 ) ( Jonah 1:3 ) hence we read of (wpyd amy) , "the sea of Joppa" F24; and also of (wpy lv hnyml) , "the port of Joppa" F25; now Simon's house was in the outer part of the city, and by the sea side, as well for convenience for his business, as because such trades might not be exercised within a city; being nauseous and disagreeable, because of their skins and manner of dressing them, and the dead carcasses from whence they often took them off; hence that rule of the Jews F26,

``they place dead carcasses, graves, (yqorwbh taw) , "and a tanner's workshop", (in which he dresses his skins,) fifty cubits from the city; nor do they make a tanner's workshop, but at the eastern part of the city. R. Abika says, it may be made at every part excepting the west.''

The reason of that, as given by the F1 commentators, is, because prayer was made towards the west, where the temple stood, and the divine presence was. The Ethiopic version very wrongly renders it, "and the house of Cornelius is near the sea"; for not his, but Simon's is meant:

he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do;
he was to tell him words, or to deliver doctrines to him, by which he and his family would be better instructed in the way of salvation, and arrive to a greater degree of knowledge of Christ, and faith in him, and be brought to a submission to his commands and ordinances; see ( Acts 10:22 Acts 10:32 ) ( 11:14 ) , this clause is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in some others, and in the Syriac and Arabic versions.


FOOTNOTES:

F24 Ezra iii. 7. Targum in 2 Chron. ii. 16.
F25 T. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 1. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 1. & 13. 9. 1 Maccab. xiv. 5. 1. Esdr. v. 55.
F26 Misn. Bava Bathra, c. 2. sect. 9.
F1 Maimou. & Bartenora in ib.

Acts 10:6 In-Context

4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
5 Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter.
6 He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
7 When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants.
8 He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.

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