CHAPTER 10
THE CHURCH’S DOOR OPENED FOR THE GENTILES—ACCESSION OF CONVERTS
FROM HEATHENDOM
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1. Cornelius’s Vision; or, a Gentile Inquirer directed (Acts 10:1).
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2. Peter’s Trance; or, the Apostolic Agent instructed (Acts 10:9).
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3. Cornelius’s Messengers at Joppa; or, the Gentile Proselyte... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 10:1. THERE WAS.—Omitted in best MSS.
CENTURION.—ἑκατοντάρχης (Acts 27:1) =
ἑκατοντάρχος (Acts 21:32; compare Luke 7:2; Luke 23:47).
ITALIAN BAND, or _cohort._—The _legio Italica_ of Tacitus (_Hist_,
i. 59, 64), raised by Nero (_Dion. Cass_, Leviticus 24). was not at
this tim... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 10:1. THERE WAS.—Omitted in best MSS.
CENTURION.—ἑκατοντάρχης (Acts 27:1) =
ἑκατοντάρχος (Acts 21:32; compare Luke 7:2; Luke 23:47).
ITALIAN BAND, or _cohort._—The _legio Italica_ of Tacitus (_Hist_,
i. 59, 64), raised by Nero (_Dion. Cass_, Leviticus 24). was not at
this tim... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 10:17. ἐν ἑαυτῷ διηπόρει, DOUBTED IN HIMSELF,
or _mas much perplexed in himself_ (as in Acts 2:12, Acts 10:24),
seems to intimate that Peter’s trance was over and Peter himself
returned to his ordinary consciousness.
Acts 10:19. THE SPIRIT SAID UNTO HIM.—Neander thinks that... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 10:25. AND WORSHIPPED.—Not Peter (Adoravit: non addidit Lucas
“eum,” Bengel), but God in him, or who sent him. (Compare
Galatians 4:14.)
Acts 10:30. FOUR DAYS AGO I WAS FASTING UNTIL THIS HOUR; AND AT THE
NINTH HOUR I PRAYED IN MY HOUSE.—This seems to say that Cornelius
had... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 10:34. The word for RESPECTER OF PERSONS,
προσωπολήπτης, is found only here in the N.T., though
προσωποληψία occurs in Romans 2:11.
Acts 10:35. ACCEPTED WITH HIM.—Better, _acceptable to him._ Though
applied to Cornelius prior to his hearing the gospel, this did not
imply th... [ Continue Reading ]