Acts 10:6

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܗܳܐ ܫܪܶܐ ܒ݁ܒ݂ܰܝܬ݁ܶܗ ܕ݁ܫܶܡܥܽܘܢ ܒ݁ܽܘܪܣܳܝܳܐ ܗܰܘ ܕ݁ܺܐܝܬ݂ܰܘܗ݈ܝ ܥܰܠ ܝܰܕ݂ ܝܰܡܳܐ ܀

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one: Acts 9:43

he shall: Acts 9:6, Acts 11:13, Acts 11:14, John 7:17, Romans 10:14-17, Ephesians 4:8-12

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:27 - Go into Ezra 3:7 - Joppa Acts 9:11 - Arise Acts 10:18 - and asked Acts 10:22 - and to Acts 15:7 - ye know

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, :-

whose house is by the sea side; Joppa was a sea port, 2 Chronicles 2:16 Jonah 1:3 hence we read of ימא דיפו, "the sea of Joppa" x; and also of למינה של יפו, "the port of Joppa" y; 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 z,

"they place dead carcasses, graves, ואת הבורסקי, "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 a 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, this clause is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in some others, and in the Syriac and Arabic versions.

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He lodgeth - He remains as a guest at his house. See Acts 9:43.

By the sea-side - Joppa was a seaport on the Mediterranean. Tanneries are erected on the margin of streams or of any body of water to convey away the filth produced in the operation of dressing skins.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 10:6. Simon a tanner — Acts 9:43; Acts 9:43.

What thou oughtest to do. — From this it appears that matters of great moment had occupied the mind of Cornelius. He was not satisfied with the state of his own soul, nor with the degree he possessed of religious knowledge; and he set apart a particular time for extraordinary fasting and prayer, that God might farther reveal to him the knowledge of his will. Perhaps he had heard of Jesus, and had been perplexed with the different opinions that prevailed concerning him, and now prayed to God that he might know what part he should take; and the answer to this prayer is, "Send to Joppa for Simon Peter, he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do." This clause, so explanatory, is wanting in almost every MS. and version of note. Griesbach and some others have left it out of the text. But see Acts 11:14, where it stands in substance.