Acts 10:30

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, AND CORNELIUS SAID, FOUR DAYS AGO. If the messengers were despatched on the first day, and on the second reached Joppa, started for Caesarea on the third, and on the fourth arrived, this would make out the four days. I WAS FASTING UNTIL THIS HOUR. Lachmann reads thus: 'Four days ago I was praying in my house at the ninth I WAS FASTING UNTIL THIS HOUR. Lachmann reads thus: 'Four days ago I was praying in my house at the ninth hour' [leaving out neesteuoon (G3522), kai (G2532)]. His external authorities are weighty, perhaps of equal strength with those for the Received Text, but...

Because this answer of Cornelius containeth only the bare repetition of the history, I shall not need to stand long about that. The sum is, that he called Peter at the commandment of God. 30._I was fasting. _Many Greek books (687) have ημην, _I sat_. The old interpreter omitteth the word fasting, which I think was done through error or negligence, because it is expressed in all the Greek books. (688) Furthermore, he maketh express mention of fasting, partly that we may know that he prayed not coldly, or overfields (689) at that time; secondly, that the vision may be the less suspected. For doubtless the brain of a man that is fasting (where there is moderate sobriety) doth not easily admit any strong imaginations, wherein appear images and strange forms, whereby men are deceived....

19-33 When we see our call clear to any service, we should not be perplexed with doubts and scruples arising from prejudices or former ideas. Cornelius had called together his friends, to partake with him of the heavenly wisdom he expected from Peter. We should not covet to eat our spiritual morsels alone. It ought to be both given and taken as kindness and respect to our kindred and friends, to invite them to join us in religious exercises. Cornelius declared the direction God gave him to send for Peter. We are right in our aims in attending a gospel ministry, when we do it with regard to the Divine appointment requiring us to make use of that ordinance. How seldom ministers are called to speak to such companies, however small, in which it may be said that they are all present in the sight of God, to hear all things that are commanded of God! But these were ready to hear what Peter was...

Verse 30. _FOUR DAYS AGO I WAS FASTING UNTIL THIS HOUR_] It was then about three o'clock in the afternoon; and it appears that Cornelius had continued his fasts from three o'clock the preceding day to three o'clock the day following; not that he had fasted four days together, as some supposes for even if he did fast four days consecutively, he ate one meal on each day. It is however necessary to remark that the word νηστευων, _fasting_ is wanting in ABC, _one_ other; the _Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian_, and _Vulgate_; but it has not been omitted in any _edition_ of the Greek Testament....

FOUR DAYS AGO - See the notes on Acts 10:23. UNTIL THIS HOUR - The ninth hour, or three o’clock, p. m. See Acts 10:3. A MAN - Called, in Acts 10:3, an angel. He had the appearance of a man. Compare Mark 16:5. IN BRIGHT CLOTHING - See the notes on Matthew 28:3....

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 Caesarea (see note to Acts 9:30) was but a short distance, some thirty miles, from Joppa. It was doubtless with a view to Peter's momentous errand to Caesarea that Luke recorded his previous visit to Lydda and his residence at Joppa, consequent upon the restoring of Dorcas to life: the _origines _of Gentile Christianity being the prime object of the Acts (see Introduction to the Acts). THE ITALIAN BAND; or, _cohort _(σπείρα). The σπείρα, or cohort, was used in two _senses. _When spoken of strictly Roman troops, it meant the ten

AND CORNELIUS SAID,.... The Syriac version adds, "to him", to the apostle; the following he said, in a very submissive and humble manner: FOUR DAYS AGO I WAS FASTING UNTO THIS HOUR; in the Greek text it is, "from the fourth day unto this hour I was fasting": which looks as if he had been fasting four days, and was still fasting at that hour; though the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions leave out the phrase "I was fasting": but the sense which our version and others give is the truest; that four days ago, or reckoning four days back, Cornelius was fasting on that day, until such time in that day as now it was in this present day; and which perhaps might be the ninth hour, or three o'clock in the afternoon: the account of days exactly agrees; as soon as Cornelius had had the vision, he sends men to Joppa, which was one day; on the morrow they came to Joppa, which makes two days; Peter l...

ACTS 10:30 th.n evna,thn {B} The Textus Receptus, supported by a diversified and respectable array of witnesses, appears to be clear and straightforward: VApo. teta,rthj h`me,raj me,cri tau,thj th/j w[raj h;mhn nhsteu,wn( kai. th.n evna,thn w[ran proseuco,menoj evn tw|/ oi;kw| mou, which ought to mean, “From the fourth day until this hour I was fasting, and while keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house” (the reading in D avpo. th/j tri,thj h`me,raj may have arisen when the scribe counted the three instances of evpau,rion in verses Acts 10:9,...

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 Gentiles (Acts 10:34). 5. The Interrupted Message (Acts 10:44). The ending of the preceding chapter tells us that Peter tarried in Joppa in the house of Simon the tanner. Was he breaking with his Jewish law and customs? Tanning as a trade was considered unclean by the Jews. In...

ACTS 10. THE CONVERSION OF CORNELIUS. This incident is parallel to the conversion of the Ethiopian by Philip; both show the extension of the Gospel beyond the Jews, and prepare for the story of the Pauline mission. On the opening vision _cf. Acts 8:26_, Acts 16:9; Galatians 2:2. See also p. 767. ACTS 10:19. Peter on the roof would hear their voices calling for him. He did not need the Spirit to tell him their errand, only to help him to make the decision. Acts 10:20. nothing doubting: _ cf._...