Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 10:46
Seen notes on verse 44
Seen notes on verse 44
ACTS 10:46 glw,ssaij Several Western witnesses qualify “tongues” with one or another adjective; thus itd (Dgr has an erasure at this point) reads _praevaricatis linguis,_ which may presuppose an orig...
Verse Acts 10:46. _AND MAGNIFY GOD._] They had got _new hearts_ as well as _new tongues_; and, having believed with the heart unto righteousness, their tongues made confession unto salvation; and God...
SPEAK WITH TONGUES - In other languages than their own native tongue, Acts 2:4. AND MAGNIFY GOD - And praise God....
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Cornelius of Caesarea and his Preparation (Acts 10:1)._ 2. The Trance-vision of Peter (Acts 10:9). 3. Peter with Cornelius at Caesarea (Acts 10:17). 4. Peter Preaching to the Gentil...
RESULT OF THE SERMON. The Holy Spirit comes as a rule at baptism, but here, before anything is said about baptism, Peter's speech is interrupted by the descent of the Spirit. Those who had come with P...
A DEVOUT SOLDIER (Acts 10:1-8)...
When Peter was still saying these things the Holy Spirit fell upon those who were listening to his word. All the Jewish believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Spirit had be...
SPEAK. speaking. Greek. _laleo,_ as in Acts 10:7. MAGNIFY. magnifying. Greek. _megaluno,_ as in Acts 5:13. ANSWERED. App-122....
_For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God_ The same kind of manifestation of God's gifts was here made as in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. See Acts 2:11....
THE HOLY GHOST IS SENT UPON CORNELIUS AND HIS FRIENDS, AND THEY ARE SUBSEQUENTLY BAPTIZED...
ἬΚΟΥΟΝ ΓᾺΡ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν Κ.Τ.Λ., _for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God_. As to those first called in the Jewish Church, so here to the first called of the Gentiles, God pours forth His gif...
_PETER'S SERMON TO THE GENTILES ACTS 10:34-48:_ Peter said that he was certain that God treats all people alike. Everyone that worships God and does His will, can be saved. Peter recognized that God r...
ΉΚΟΥΟΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts 10:22., с _obj._ в _gen._ ΛΑΛΟΎΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part., см._ Acts 10:8. _Adj._ или _temp. part._ "пока они говорили..." ΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΕΓΑΛΎΝΩ...
THEY OF THE CIRCUMCISION—WERE ASTONISHED, &C.— The Jews had a proverb among them, that the Holy Spirit would not dwell upon any heathen, nor even upon any Jew in a prophetic or miraculous manner in a...
IN CAESAREA, Acts 10:1-48. a. Cornelius and his vision. Acts 10:1-8. Acts 10:1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,...
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES, AND MAGNIFY GOD. The tongues used on this occasion were clearly not intended fo...
31 The conversion of Cornelius is not in accord with the truth for today. Salvation is not offered to those who have access to God in prayer, for such are already saved. It is for sinners, and the ung...
SPEAK WITH TONGUES] see on Acts 2:4;...
PETER AND THE GENTILES 1-48. Conversion of Cornelius. The baptism of Cornelius was an event of farreaching importance, and is, therefore, described by St. Luke in great detail. If it was not the first...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 CORNELIUS THE SOLDIER, 10:1-8 V1 There was a man called Cornelius in Caesarea. He was a captain in the *Roman army. He was the captain of a...
λαλούντων γλώσσαις, see on Acts 2:13; here no speaking in different languages is meant, but none the less the gift which manifested itself in jubilant ecstatic praise was a gift of the Spirit, and the...
GENTILES RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT Acts 10:34-48 The address with which Peter answered the centurion's inquiry was largely a recapitulation of the great facts of gospel history. The ministry of Jesus i...
The story of Cornelius is remarkable. In himself, as Luke tells us, he was "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." This m...
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit A remarkable thing occurred while Peter was speaking. Gentiles, who had never gotten rid of their uncleanness through circumcision and sacrifice, were baptized with the...
SANCTIFICATION OF CORNELIUS 1-48. Cornelius was a noted Roman officer living at Caesarea, the seat of the imperial government in Judea. The Holy Ghost pronounces him _Eusebees_, _i. e_., godly, and ce...
In the midst of Peter's flaming Pentecostal sermon, his appreciative audience, responsive to the Holy Ghost, received by faith the simple, wonderful and paradoxical truth enunciated by the preacher an...
While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. (45) And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on t...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
46._For they heard them. _He expresseth what gifts of the Spirit were poured out upon them, and therewithal he noteth the use; to wit, that they had variety of tongues given them, so that they did glo...
The undiminished power of Peter, his apostolic authority, in the midst of which the entrance of Cornelius into the spiritual house of God takes place, in connection with Peter's ministry, and that, af...
FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES,.... With divers tongues, which they had never learned, and before did not understand: and magnify God; they spoke of the wonderful works of God in these languag...
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Ver. 46. _Spake with tongues_] This diversity of tongues, laid at first on mankind as a curse, Genesis 11:1,9, God turned...
_While Peter yet spake_ Or, _was yet speaking; these words_ Even before he had finished, and without the imposition of his hands on their heads; _the Holy Ghost fell_ On Cornelius, and _on all them wh...
The effect of the sermon:...
FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES AND MAGNIFY GOD. THEN ANSWERED PETER,...
Gentiles also must now hear the gospel. The heart of Cornelius, a Roman centurion, had been already prepared by God, having a wholesome, genuine fear of God that proved itself in kind works toward the...
FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES AND MAGNIFY GOD. THEN PETER ANSWERED, 47 " Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we _have?_ " 1....
"For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter" Along with prophecy (Acts 19:6), the visible evidence that the Holy Spirit had come upon them. Again, the tongues are und...
44-48 The Holy Ghost fell upon others after they were baptized, to confirm them in the faith; but upon these Gentiles before they were baptized, to show that God does not confine himself to outward s...
WITH TONGUES; with variety of languages, or strange tongues, as in the day of Pentecost, ACTS 2:6. ANSWERED; an ordinary Hebraism for speaking, though the first part of any discourse. And Peter, knowi...
Acts 10:46 For G1063 heard G191 (G5707) them G846 speak G2980 (G5723) tongues G1100 and G2532 magnify...
PETER'S SPEECH TO CORNELIUS AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AND FRIENDS (10:34-48)....
‘And they of the circumcision who were believers were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit. For they heard them speak with t...
Peter recognised this immediately, and seizing the moment asked ‘the circumcised' whether they could think of any reason why these uncircumcised Gentiles should not be baptised when they had received...
Acts 10:46. THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES. It is not said here, as in Acts 2:4, that they spoke with _other_ tongues. See note above on Acts 10:44....
THEY HEARD (ηκουον). Imperfect active, were hearing, kept on hearing.SPEAK (λαλουντων). Present active participle, speaking, for they kept it up.WITH TONGUES (γλωσσαις). Instrumental case as in...
CONTENTS: Peter opens the gospel door to the Gentiles. Cornelius sends for Peter and Peter goes to Caesarea. Peter's sermon to Gentiles in Cornelius' house. Holy Spirit comes upon Gentile believers....
Acts 10:1. _Cornelius, a centurion._ The person to whom St. Peter is sent to preach the gospel is described by name, Cornelius. By his occupation, a soldier. By his religion, a proselyte or converted...
_While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the Word._ PETER’S PREACHING I. The effects of Peter’s preaching. It-- 1. Converted Gentiles. Peter preached the gospe...
_And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting._ PETER AT CAESAREA We welcome his revelation that the grace of God has so boundless a reach; that in His government men are accountable not for know...
_There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion._ PETER’S VISION The record of the advance of the young Church gives in quick succession three typical conversions: first, that of t...
_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, acce...
EXPOSITION ACTS 10:1 Now _there was _(two last words in italics) for _there was _(in roman), A.V. and T.R.; _Cornelius by name _for _called Cornelius, _A.V. A glance at the map will show that Caesare...
In the first chapter of Acts, Jesus said to His disciples, "But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Ju...
1 Corinthians 14:20; Acts 19:6; Acts 2:11; Acts 2:4...
AFTER HIS RESURRECTION Acts 10:38 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to what shall follow, we wish to call attention to the fact that the early Church gave an unchallenged testimony to the resurrec...