Handelingen 9:33

33 En aldaar vond hij een zeker mens, met name Eneas, die acht jaren te bed gelegen had, welke geraakt was.

Handelingen 9:33 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 9:33

And there he found a certain man
In a house in that city, into which he entered:

named Aeneas;
which is a Gentile name, and so might the person be; though there is mention made of this name among the Jews. We read of one R. Samuel Bar, (ayyna) "Aenea, or Aeneas" ^F12; but it was more common among the Greeks. Aeneas the Trojan is well known in history, who, after the destruction of Troy, went into Italy, and settled there; and from him the Trojans are sometimes called Aeneadae. The name comes from the Greek word (ainw) , "ainoo", which signifies "to praise"; and Aeneas is one "worthy of praise": though Jerom ^F13 takes it to be an Hebrew name, which he interprets "one that answers", or a "poor man", or "misery"; as if it came from the Hebrew word (hne) , "anah", which signifies "to answer, or to afflict".

Which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy;
so that the distemper was grown stubborn, and thought incurable; nor perhaps had he, or his friends, any hope of his ever being restored to health again.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 T. Hieros. Yebamot, fol. 6. 2. & Midrash Kohelet, fol. 73. 3.
F13 De Nominibus Hebraicis, fol. 105. H.

Handelingen 9:33 In-Context

31 De Gemeenten dan, door geheel Judea, en Galilea, en Samaria, hadden vrede, en werden gesticht; en wandelende in de vreze des Heeren, en de vertroosting des Heiligen Geestes, werden vermenigvuldigd.

32 En het geschiedde, als Petrus alom doortrok, dat hij ook afkwam tot de heiligen, die te Lydda woonden.

33 En aldaar vond hij een zeker mens, met name Eneas, die acht jaren te bed gelegen had, welke geraakt was.

34 En Petrus zeide tot hem: Eneas! Jezus Christus maakt u gezond; sta op en spreid uzelven het bed. En hij stond terstond op.

35 En zij zagen hem allen, die te Lydda en Sarona woonden, dewelke zich bekeerden tot den Heere.