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Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

Acts 10

Acts 10:1

CESAREA; chap Acts 8:40. CENTURION; captain of a hundred men. He was a Gentile and uncircumcised, chap, Acts 11:3, but a sincere worshipper of God. ITALIAN BAND; a band of Roman soldiers from Italy.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:4

FOR A MEMORIAL; remembered, noticed with approbation. A beneficent disposition is greatly increased by the habit of daily prayer. Both united, and springing from love to God and to men, form an offering which, through grace, is peculiarly acceptable to God.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:6

WHAT THOU OUGHTEST TO DO; Cornelius had true faith in God according to the present measure of his light, and his prayers were answered in the reception of fuller light. Matthew 13:12.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:9

HOUSE - TOP; the tops of the houses were flat, and pious people often resorted to them for meditation and prayer. SIXTH HOUR; twelve o'clock; with many, one of the stated hours of prayer. Psalms 55:17; Daniel 6:10. When God is about to call his people to the discharge of special duties, he often in... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:10

TRANCE; a state in which he became insensible to external objects, and absorbed in what was presented to his mind.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:11

KNIT; fastened together. LET DOWN TO THE EARTH; from heaven, to signify that the offer is made to the apostle by God himself.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:13

KILL, AND EAT; he rightly understands the words to mean, kill and eat any one of the animals contained in the collection, without distinction of clean and unclean.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:14

COMMON; not set apart as pure. The reference is, of course, to the Jewish distinction of clean and unclean animals.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:15

HATH CLEANSED; declared no longer unclean for food. Under this symbol of the abolition of the Jewish distinction of clean and unclean animals, is signified the breaking down of "the middle wall of partition" between Jews and Gentiles, and the admission of the latter to common privileges with Israeli... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:16

THRICE; three times, in order to make a deeper impression on Peter's mind, and prepare him to preach the gospel to Jews and Gentiles alike.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:26

A MAN; only a man. As Peter was only man, he would not receive any homage or respect, except what was proper for other men. Those who claim more, on account, as they say, of being his successors, manifest a spirit totally different from his.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:33

When people are assembled with a real desire to hear from ministers of the gospel all which God has commanded them to preach, it is an evidence that he is about abundantly to bless them. While the minister is preaching, the Holy Ghost often so influences their minds as to lead them to glorify God.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:44

FELL ON ALL THEM; endowed them with miraculous powers, and enabled them to speak in languages which they had never learned. Matthew 3:11; chap Acts 2:2-4.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 10:48

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, in public acknowledgment of their receiving him as their Saviour, and becoming his disciples.... [ Continue Reading ]

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