Acts 10:42. Commanded us to preach. The quoting of this royal command puts Christ before Cornelius in the position of supreme dignity.

Ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. Again the Lord Jesus, and in a more awful manner, is set forth in the position of supreme dignity. His judicial work is made prominent here, as in St. Paul's address to heathen listeners at Athens (Acts 17:31). It is an appeal to the natural conscience. The absolutely universal expression ‘the quick and dead,' including both Jews and Gentiles, is in harmony with the whole occasion.

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