Acts 10:14 The Comprehensiveness of the Gospel. I. The gospel is here compared to a _great sheet,_ a clear hint as to the cosmopolitan character of Christianity. It is noteworthy that Christianity as let down from heaven is larger than Christianity as represented in human creeds. II. The gospel i... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 10:15 The Transition from the Old to the New. I. The questions raised by this narrative are _not_met by the simple consideration of the narrow prejudice and even bigotry of the apostle of the circumcision, and the liberal teachings of the vision which inaugurated a new era in the heart of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 10:19 Visions and Tasks. I. The power of man to stand between abstract truth upon the one side and the concrete facts of life upon the other, comes from the co-existence in his human nature of two different powers, without the possession of both of which no man possesses a complete humanity. O... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 10:34 I. The warning contained in the text is not unnecessary. For though few or none, I suppose, consciously hold in the grossest sense that God is a respecter of persons, yet in all things, from supposed religious enlightenment down to the smallest advantages of personal gifts or outward circ... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 10:42 Christ the Judge. Both by natural right, and by a special claim acquired and superinduced on that, the Son of God is Judge of mankind; the natural right putting as Creator all things into His hand, and man among these, as their final Arranger and Disposer; the acquired claim giving an e... [ Continue Reading ]