Acts 9:40
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What does Acts 9:40 mean?
But Peter put them all forth
As he had seen his Lord and Master do, when he raised the
daughter of Jairus from the dead, ( Luke 8:54 )
and kneeled down and prayed;
it may be, as yet, he had not the mind of God in this matter, and
therefore betook himself to prayer, in which he chose to be
private and alone:
and turning him to the body;
the corpse of Dorcas, after he had prayed, and was well assured
that the power of Christ would be exerted in raising of it:
said, Tabitha, arise;
which words were spoken in the name and faith of Christ, and were
all one as, if Christ himself had spoken them; for to his power,
and not to the apostles, is the following miracle to be ascribed:
and she opened her eyes; which, upon her death, had been closed
by her friends; and perhaps the napkin was not yet bound about
her face: or if it was, she must remove it ere she could open her
eyes and see Peter:
and when she saw Peter;
whom she might know:
she sat up;
upon the bed or bier on which she lay.
