Acts 10:7

Acts 10:7. When the angel was departed (see note above on Acts 10:3). The phrase used by Cornelius himself (Acts 10:33), when he tells his story to St. Peter, is, ‘Immediately therefore I sent unto thee.' There is something of military promptitude in this (comp. Matthew 8:9; Acts 23:23; Acts 27:32). The arrangements for the journey were speedily made, and the travellers started that very afternoon.

Two of his household servants. The domestic character of the piety of Cornelius seems to show itself here from a new point of view.

A devout soldier of them that waited on him continually. This man is described as like his master or commander in religious character, and therefore peculiarly well fitted for the service now assigned to him. Although not affirmed, it seems to be implied that the other two messengers were like-minded; so that we have here the interesting case of a whole Gentile household brought, by intercourse with Jews and by the grace of God, to the very threshold of the true religion' (Alexander).