1817 Sept. 28

Not Paul  […?]

Peter’s exploits

With /From/ any thing that was done either at Lydda or at Saron at either of these two inland places it appears not however that the light which […?] /shone/ afterwards so happily on the Gentiles received any direct influence. In this point of view it is in Joppa and Cæsarea that we must look for were /became/ the stations of importance.

But though the exact plan /the […?]/ of operation is a task[?] which serves[?] to […?] one almost too difficult to be attempted /for our means of accomplishment/ yet the principal part of the machinery provided and employed seems not to be very deep below the surface - it consists in the pair of corresponding visions: viz. that of Peter and that of Cornelius.

His first exploit is the one performed at Lydda upon the paralytic Æneas. His next exploit is the resuscitation of Tabitha at Joppa.

At no /every/ one of all these three places there was or at any rate at Lydda and Joppa already established as it should seem a colony of converts. But it is to Joppa that the Gentiles are indebted /represented as/ /spoken/ for the first […?] of that illumination which they were afterwards to so vast an extent they were destined to receive.

in Lydda Saints in Joppa a disciple […?]