for that he ""'uld not delay to oome t,o t1iem, as in oh. vii. 60; xx. 86; xxi. 5; Luke xxli. 41. A. V. and T.R. It ie impossible to say It oooura also in Mark xv. 19. Tabitha, arise, whether nny VRgue hope that Dorce.s might Exactly the same ad lress o.s our Lord's be restored to life by Pater's prayers •• Talitba oumi" (Mark v. 40), but, 11,s Lange animated those who sent for Peter, and who observe'-', with this difference, that in the had either seen or heBrd of the miracles oase of Peter it wns preceded by prayer; wrought by him et Jernsalem before the oomp. also Luke vii. 14 (where the Ara.mean persecution (oh. v. 15), or v.-hetber it only address was probably in the so.me form); wu that they felt the need of comfort and John xi. 43. 1upport in so grent a sorrow. Two men; Ver. 4-1.-Raised for lifted, A.V.; calling so oh. x. 7. Oomelius sends two of his for when he /lad called, A.V.; he presented household servants (comp. oh. xiii. 2; xv. for presented, A. V. The saints and widows; 22). In un&&fe times and by dangerous by which we leo.rn that others of the l'ORds, it WW! cust.omary to send two mes- Christians of Joppa besides the widows had sengers, both for mutual protection and come to meet Peter, as was to be expeoted. that, if anything happened to one, the other Ver. 42.-lt became known for it was might still deliver the message. It was also known, A.V.; on for in, A.V. As in ver. • security again11t fraud. 35, the result of the healing of the palsied Ver. 39.-.A.nd for then, A.V.; and w°Mn man o.t Lydda WW! that very many " turned for when, A. V. All the widows. The article to the Lord," so here the like effect was may denote all the widows for whom Dorco.s produced at Joppa. by the restoration of had made garments, which the middle voice Dorcas to life. Many believed on the Lord. (tt,0Et1<v6wv,1.1), found only here, indioates And St. John tells us (xx. 31) that the very perhaps that they had on them at the time. purpose of the record which he wrote of the But it is quite as probable that cu x11p1u mira.cles of Christ is "that we may believe means the Church widows, as in eh. vi. 1 and that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; 1 Tim. v. 9, and that we have here an indica- and that believing tae may have life in his tion that the model of the Jerusalem Church Name." we.a followed in all the daughter Churches. Ver. 43.-.A.bode for tarried, A.V. Many Dorce.a'& almedeeds wonld naturally have days ( f,µepa.s IKavds); the same phrase as ver, for their first object the widows of her own 23; spoken of a time of indeterminate length. communion. As naturally wonld they all Here probably it means some months come to meet the apostle at her house. during which Peter would be evangelizing Ver. 40.-Turning for turning him, A.V.; the whole neighbourhood. The Jews are le ea.id for ea.id, A.V. Pater's action in said to have considered the trade of a tanner putting them all forth seems to have been unclean ; but if this were so, it would not framed on the model of that scene at which be safe to infer that Peter was already he had been present when Jesus raised the indifferent to ceremonial uncleanness. We daughter of Je.irus (see Luke viii 54 know he was not so (eh. x. 14), but probably [T.R. J; Matt. iL 25 ; Mark v. 40). Privacy in his line of life he could not act up to lor the more earnest conoentrated prayer all the nicer dietinotion.e of the striates& was doubtll!IIS what _he sought. Kneeled Phariseei,, ~ ; l•ls .,.. ,-1,,,a,.,.a. The same expre.asion
HOMILETICS. Vtm1. 1-81.-.77u Ethioplrm changes his akin. OC all the remarkable events in the history of human psychology, probably the most remarkable is the conversion of St. Paul, the memory of which is continually celebrated in the Church on the 25th of January. It may be viewed- L AB All sVIllENCE oP THB TBUTH OP CRBIBTIANITY. St. Paul lived. He preached the gospel with ai;tonishing vigour and success. Numerous Churches were founded by him iD A.Bia and Europe. These are facts as certain as facts can be. He wrote Epistles also t.o different communities of Christians, and these writings are extant at the present day. By these writings we can form an accurate judgment of St. Paul's intellectual faculties of the force of hie character, of the exient of hia knowledge. By these writings w~ can form an estimate of hie m~ral q1;111lities. We can judge for ourselves whether on the one hand he was a fanatic, an impostor, or a knave; and, on the other whether he was one or' the noblest, sincerest, and most high-minded men with whom' we have ever come in contact. These writings, besides exhibiting an un4uenchable zeal for the Chrietia11 faith, laati.ng through years of toil and suffering, cm. IX, I-43.J THE AOTS OF THE APOSTLES. 289