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John Gill's Exposition on Acts 9:43
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And it came to pass, etc.] Or so it was; that he tarried many days in Joppa; conversing with the saints, confirming the disciples, and preaching the Gospel, to the conversion of sinners; and his abode was with one Simon a tanner; it seems as if persons of this trade used to dwell in towns near the sea, as fit for their business; so we read of some at Sidon, a city on the sea coast, as Joppa was; “it happened at Sidon that a certain ysrwb, “tanner”, (the same word here used, adopted into the Hebrew language,) died, and he had a brother a tanner, etc. f521” where the Gemara f522 distinguishes between a great tanner and a little tanner; the latter, the gloss says, is one that is poor and has but few skins: which of these Simon was, cannot be said. This business was very contemptible with the Jews; they say f523, “woe to him whose trade is a tanner:” and further observe f524 that they never make one a king, nor a high priest: but their doctors many of them were of as mean trades, as shoemakers, skinners, etc. (See Gill on “<410603>Mark 6:3”) and Simon the Athenian philosopher was skutotomov “a leather cutter” f525; and according to the Ethiopic version, this our Simon was a shoemaker; with him Peter chose to abide, and not with Dorcas.
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