Acts 10:22

μαρτυρούμενός τε ὑπὸ ὅλου τοῦ ἔθνους, of good report among all the nation, i.e. for the alms-deeds which he did, and on account of his reverence for the true God. They say not only among the people of Cæsarea was the piety of Cornelius known, but among all the Jews.

ἐχρηματίσθη, was divinely warned. This word and the noun derived from it are constantly used of messages from above. Thus we find the verb where we are told of Joseph’s warnings (Matthew 2:12; Matthew 2:22), of Simeon’s divine revelation (Luke 2:26), and of the admonitions sent to Moses (Hebrews 8:5), and to Noah (Hebrews 11:7). For the noun, See 2Ma 2:4, χρηματισμοῦ γενηθέντος αὐτῷ, ‘being warned of God,’ (A.V.).

ἀκοῦσαι ῥήματα παρὰ σοῦ, to hear words of thee, i.e. to receive commandments from thee and learn what God would have him to do (cp. Acts 11:14). By the Jews the Ten Commandments are constantly called “the ten words,” and Moses in recapitulating them (Deuteronomy 5:5) speaks of them as τὰ ῥήματα κυρίου.