Not so. By no means. Greek. medamos.
have... eaten. ate.
never. not even at any time. Greek. oudepote.
unclean. Greek. akathartos. The previous twenty-one occurrences all apply to evil spirits. Here the reference is to the ceremonial uncleanness of the Levitical law.
Verse Acts 10:14. _COMMON OR UNCLEAN._] By _common_, κοινον, whatever was in _general use_ among the _Gentiles_ is to be understood; by ακαθαρτον, _unclean_, every thing that was _forbidden_ by the M...
I HAVE NEVER EATEN ... - In the Old Testament God had made a distinction between clean and unclean animals. See Leviticus 11:2; Deuteronomy 14:3. This law remained in the Scriptures, and Peter pled th...
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...
_Not so, Lord_ Cp. Ezekiel 4:14, where the prophet being shewn that the children of Israel shall eat defiled bread among the Gentiles, exclaims in words very like St Peter's: "There never came abomina...
ΜΗΔΑΜΩ͂Σ, ΚΎΡΙΕ, _not so_ (by no means), _Lord_. Cf. Ezekiel 4:14, where the prophet being shewn that the children of Israel shall eat defiled bread among the Gentiles, exclaims in words very like St...
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...
ΜΗΔΑΜΏΣ (G3365) вовсе нет, никоим образом, ΈΦΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 10:13. О возможной семитской конструкции с отр. _см._ BG, 150-51. ΚΟΙΝΌΣ (G2839) обычный, то есть соприкасающийся с чем у...
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...
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. BUT PETER SAID, NOT SO, [ meedamoos (G3365)] - 'By no means,' 'Not at all,' LORD; FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN...
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...
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...
NOT SO, LORD... — The emphatic resistance even to a voice from heaven is strikingly in harmony with the features of St. Peter’s character, as portrayed in the Gospels, with the “Be it far from thee, L...
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...
Μηδαμῶς : _absit_ (LXX for חָלִילָה), 1 Samuel 20:2; 1 Samuel 22:15 (Weiss). Κύριε : Weiss refers to Acts 1:24, and takes it as meaning Jehovah, but others refer the expression here to Christ; the nex...
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...
(2) But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. (2) Peter learns daily in the knowledge of the benefit of Christ, yea, even after he had received the Hol...
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...
14._Not so, Lord. _This is the voice of him which doth as well refuse, as also object to God his own commandment; for he is afraid, for good causes, to touch that which he knew was forbidden him in th...
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...
BUT PETER SAID, NOT SO, LORD,.... God forbid I should do this, so contrary to the law of God, and to my own practice, throughout the whole course of my life: FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANYTHING THAT IS C...
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. Ver. 14. _Common or unclean_] By commonness there is contracted an uncleanness. It is hard to deal in the wor...
_And saw heaven opened_ While he lay in a trance, the heaven appeared to be opened above him, to signify the opening of a mystery that had been hid. _And a certain vessel_ Or utensil; (for the word σκ...
COMMON; not set apart as pure. The reference is, of course, to the Jewish distinction of clean and unclean animals....
BUT PETER SAID, NOT SO, LORD; FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANYTHING THAT IS COMMON OR UNCLEAN....
The vision of Peter:...
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...
BUT PETER SAID, " NOT SO, LORD! FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANYTHING COMMON OR UNCLEAN. " 1. Peter resists. Peter has obeyed the Law of Moses regarding diet. He has not eaten what the law declared to be u...
"But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for. have never eaten anything that is common and unclean"Not so, Lord" "By no means" (NASV). "Peter is always. man quick to act and quick to speak. Although he was in....
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...
These words may signify one and the same thing, and the latter explain the former; showing that those things are said to be common, which the law, by forbidding them, had made unclean. Others make som...
Tertullian Of Patience When, then, on being cursed, I smite (with my tongue,) how shall I be found to have followed the doctrine of the Lord, in which it has been delivered that "a man is defiled,[91...
Acts 10:14 But G1161 Peter G4074 said G2036 (G5627) so G3365 Lord G2962 For G3754 have G5315 never...
‘But Peter said, “Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.” ' Peter responded firmly, and possibly a little indignantly (being Peter). ‘Never, Lord,' he said, ‘for I h...
Acts 10:14. NOT SO, LORD. This expostulation, so to speak, addressed by St. Peter to the Deity, is quite according to the analogy of Divine visions recorded in Scripture (comp. especially St. Paul's e...
NOT SO, LORD (Μηδαμωσ, κυριε). The negative μηδαμως calls for the optative ειη (may it not be) or the imperative εστω (let it be). It is not ουδαμως, a blunt refusal (I shall not do it). And yet it...
Acts 10:14 The Comprehensiveness of the Gospel. I. The gospel is here compared to a _great sheet,_ a clear hint as to the cosmopolitan character of Christianity. It is noteworthy that Christianity a...
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 SAW HEAVEN OPENED. The meaning of this vision is clear. Peter is hungry. He sees a sheet lowered down, containing all kinds of animals, reptiles, and wild birds. Many of these are ritually "unclean...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 10:13 KILL AND EAT. God was overturning the old clean/unclean distinctions and dietary laws in general, along with all other “ceremonial” laws in the Mosaic covenant (including laws...
_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...
Deuteronomy 14:1; Exodus 10:11; Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 44:31;...
Not so [μ η δ α μ ω ς]. Stronger : by no means. "With that simple and audacious self - confidence which in his (Peter's) character was so singularly mingled with fits of timidity and depression, he bo...
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...
But Peter said, In nowise, Lord — When God commands a strange or seemingly improper thing, the first objection frequently finds pardon. But it ought not to be repeated. This doubt and delay of St. Pet...