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Acts 10:10
he fell into a trance So that the vision was seen by him only mentally, when he was rapt out of the body, and beheld all things as a man in a dream.
he fell into a trance So that the vision was seen by him only mentally, when he was rapt out of the body, and beheld all things as a man in a dream.
ACTS 10:10 evge,neto (2) Instead of the second instance of evge,neto, the later text (E L P many minuscules, followed by the Textus Receptus) substitutes evpe,pesen, which not only avoids the repetit...
Verse Acts 10:10. _HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY_] It seems that this happened about dinner-time; for it appears that they were _making ready_, παρασκευαζοντων, _dressing the victuals_ for the family. The _d...
AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY - Prom the connection, where it is said that they were making ready, that is, preparing a meal, it would seem that this was the customary hour of dining. The Hebrews, Greeks,...
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...
ACTS 10:9. THE HOUSETOP TO PRAY: _ cf._ 2 Kings 23:12; Jeremiah 19:13; Daniel 6:10. SIXTH HOUR: an hour of prayer (cf....
A DEVOUT SOLDIER (Acts 10:1-8)...
On the next day, when they were on the way and when they were getting near the city, about midday Peter went up to the housetop to pray. He became hungry and he wanted something to eat. When they were...
VERY HUNGRY. Greek. _prospeinos._ Only here. WOULD HAVE EATEN. wished (Greek. _ethelo._ App-102.) to eat. EATEN. Greek. _geuomai,_ to taste (food understood). Always trans, "taste", except in Acts,...
ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ for ἐπέπεσεν with אABC. _Vulg_. ‘cecidit.’ 10. ΠΡΌΣΠΕΙΝΟΣ, _very hungry_. The word is found nowhere else. ἬΘΕΛΕΝ ΓΕΎΣΑΣΘΑΙ, _he would have eaten_. γεύομαι is not commonly used for taking a m...
PETER IS PREPARED BY A VISION FOR THE COMING OF CORNELIUS’ MESSENGERS...
_PETER'S VISION WHILE ON THE HOUSETOP ACTS 10:9-18:_ Peter was prejudiced against Gentile and his Jewish prejudice had to be broken. While on a housetop praying Peter saw a vision of something like a...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, быть, ΠΡΌΣΠΕΙΝΟΣ (G4361) praed. _adj._ очень голодный, ΉΘΕΛΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) хотеть, желать, с _inf. impf._ указыва...
WOULD HAVE EATEN— "Would have taken a little refreshment" seems the proper import of the word γευσασθαι. The word γευσασθαι, rendered _trance,_ properly signifies such a rapture of mind, as gives the...
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,...
See notes on verse 9...
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY, AND WOULD HAVE EATEN, [ eethelen (G2309) geusasthai (G1089)] - rather,...
There were two classes of proselytes: the proselytes of righteousness and the proselytes of the gate. The former, by circumcision and conformation to the Jewish ritual, became incorporated into the Je...
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...
Trance] Trance, ecstasy, or waking vision, is only one of the modes of divine revelation, and that by no means the most frequent or most important. For examples see Isaiah 6; Daniel 7:8; Daniel 9:21;...
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...
HE FELL INTO A TRANCE. — St. Luke characteristically uses, as in Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17, the technical term _ekstasis_ (whence our English _ecstasy_) for the state which thus supervened. It is obvious...
CHAPTER 6 THE PETRINE VISION AT JOPPA. Acts 10:9 THERE are two central figures in the conversion of Cornelius. The one is the centurion himself, the other is St. Peter, the selected and predestined...
πρόσπεινος : only here, not found in LXX or classical Greek, probably intensive force in πρός, see Grimm-Thayer, _sub v._, although not in R.V. ἤθελε γεύσασθαι : there is no mention of any long period...
GUIDANCE FOR MEN WHO PRAY Acts 10:1-16 At this point the Church took a new departure, and the gospel broke over the walls of Jewish exclusiveness and was preached for the first time to pure-blooded G...
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...
Peter's Vision On the next day at noon, while the emissaries were on their way, Peter went to the top of Simon's house to pray. He became very hungry while preparations for the noon meal were being ma...
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a (f) trance, (f) For though Peter does not stand amazed as one that is tongue tied, but talks with God and is...
There came upon him an ecstasy [1] of mind. This is the true sense by the Greek. I have never yet eaten any unclean thing. This seems to have happened, an. 35 [A.D. 35]. Till then the apostles followe...
The distance from Caesarea to Joppa is about sixty miles, two light days for the pedestrians. Hence, starting in the morning, they arrive before night the afternoon of the following day. _Ekstasis_, t...
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...
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, (2) A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people,...
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...
10._Excess of mind. _Because our minds are wholly, as it were, set upon the earth, to the end Peter might the better comprehend the oracle, it was meet that his mind should be, as it were, moved from...
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...
AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY,.... It being in the middle of the day, when it was usual to eat; and perhaps he had ate nothing that day, for those were reckoned the most religious persons, who eat nothing...
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, Ver. 10. _He fell into a trance_] His soul was sundered, as it were, for a season, from his body, wh...
_On the morrow, as they went_ For they set out too late to reach the place that night; _Peter went up upon the house-top to pray_ It has often been observed, in the course of these notes, that the hou...
TRANCE; a state in which he became insensible to external objects, and absorbed in what was presented to his mind....
The vision of Peter:...
AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY, AND WOULD HAVE EATEN; BUT WHILE THEY MADE READY, HE FELL IN TO A TRANCE,...
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...
THEN HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY AND WANTED TO EAT; BUT WHILE THEY MADE READY, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE 1. It was lunch time and the meal was not ready yet. But, Peter was hungry. 2. He fell into a trance -...
"and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into. trance"Became hungry" Intensely hungry or very hungry. The people in the first century world generally ate two meals...
9-18 The prejudices of Peter against the Gentiles, would have prevented his going to Cornelius, unless the Lord had prepared him for this service. To tell a Jew that God had directed those animals to...
HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY; he might be more than ordinarily hungry, to fit or suit the vision, which is hereafter mentioned. HE FELL INTO A TRANCE: the most excellent way of God's manifesting himself unto...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II And Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten what is common or unclean. And the voice came again to him the second time, What God hath cleansed, c...
Acts 10:10 Then G1161 became G1096 (G5633) hungry G4361 and G2532 wanted G2309 (G5707) eat G1089 ...
‘And he became hungry, and desired to eat. But while they made ready, he fell into a trance, and he sees the heaven opened, and a certain container descending, as it were like a great sheet, let down...
Acts 10:10. AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY. The vision presented to him in the trance was adapted to the physical condition in which he was at the moment. WOULD HAVE EATEN. The Greek word is γευ ́ σασθαι...
HUNGRY (προσπεινος) Only instance of the word known, a απαξ λεγομενον. Probably "very hungry" (προς=besides, in addition).DESIRED (ηθελεν). Imperfect active. Was longing to eat. It was about twel...
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...
HE HAD A VISION. Compare 2 Corinthians 12:2; Revelation 1:10....
_On the morrow … Peter went up upon the housetop to pray._ RETIREMENT NECESSARY FOR PRAYER Have you noticed that if all day long there is not a knock at the door, there will be one if you retire to p...
_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 10:1. THERE WAS.—Omitted in best MSS. CENTURION.—ἑκατοντάρχης (Acts 27:1) = ἑκατοντάρχος (Acts 21:32; compare Luke 7:2;...
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...
2 Corinthians 12:2; Acts 22:17; Ezekiel 11:24; Ezekiel 40:2; Ez
Very hungry [π ρ ο σ π ε ι ν ο ς]. Only here in New Testament. Would have eaten [η θ ε λ ε γ ε υ σ α σ θ α ι]. Rev., correctly, desired to eat. Geuesqai is rendered both to eat and to taste, more freq...
THE STORY OF CORNELIUS Acts 10:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Before the Lord Jesus went up into Heaven, He gave command to the Apostles to disciple all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. In view of the far-flu...
And he became very hungry — At the usual meal time. The symbols in visions and trances, it is easy to observe, are generally suited to the state of the natural faculties....