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It could not fail to remind Peter of that other centurion whose name is not recorded, who was stationed at Capernaum, and had built the synagogue (<a href="/luke/7-5.htm" title="For he loves our nation, and he has built us a synagogue.">Luke 7:5</a>), and with that recollection there would come back to his memory the words which his Master had spoken in connection with the faith which was greater than he had found in Israel, and which proclaimed that “many should come from east and west and north and south, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God” (<a href="/matthew/8-11.htm" title="And I say to you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.">Matthew 8:11</a>).<p><span class= "bld">One that feareth God.</span>—The word was almost a technical one as describing the Gentile converts who stood in the position of “proselytes of the gate.” (Comp. <a href="/acts/10-2.htm" title="A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.">Acts 10:2</a>; <a href="/acts/10-35.htm" title="But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is accepted with him.">Acts 10:35</a>; <a href="/acts/13-16.htm" title="Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, give audience.">Acts 13:16</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">Of good report among all the nation of the Jews.</span>—St. Luke’s policy of conciliation, if one may so speak, is traceable in the stress laid on this fact. As in the case of the reception of the Apostle of the Gentiles by Ananias (<a href="/acts/9-10.htm" title="And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.">Acts 9:10</a>), so in that of Cornelius, all occasion of offence was, as far as possible, guarded against by the attestation given by those who were themselves Jews to the character of those concerned.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/acts/10.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>10:19-33 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 commanded of God to say.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/acts/10.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>To hear words of thee - To be instructed by thee. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/acts/10.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>22. they said, Cornelius … a just man, &c.—fine testimony this from his own servants.<p>of good report among all the nation of the Jews—specified, no doubt, to conciliate the favorable regard of the Jewish apostle.<p>to hear words of thee—(See on [1986]Ac 11:14).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/acts/10.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> That they might speed in their message, they labour to prevent all prejudice Peter might have against Cornelius, who was a Gentile by title; telling him: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. That he was <span class="bld">a just man, </span> as is said of Joseph, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/1-19.htm" title="Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately.">Matthew 1:19</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. That he worshipped the true God the same with the Jews, and not the false gods of the Gentiles. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. That he was reputed a pious and good man, and so it would be no disparagement to the apostles to go unto him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Was warned from God:</span> this argument St. Peter could not deny. When God’s command is evident, his people are determined and resolved. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/acts/10.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And they said, Cornelius, the centurion,.... A certain person, by name Cornelius, a Roman or Italian, as his name shows, and by office a "centurion", that was over an hundred soldiers: a just man; before God, and in his sight, through the imputation of Christ's righteousness to him; and who was a new man, created in righteousness and true holiness; and lived soberly, righteously, and godly, and did justice between man and man; and so was just in the sight of men, which was very rare in a Gentile, and in a soldier: <p>and one that feareth God; the true God, the God of Israel, and worshipped him, both internally and externally; for both sorts of worship are included in the fear of God: <p>and of good report among all the nation of the Jews; that knew any thing of him, especially at Caesarea, where many Jews, and even many of their most celebrated doctors lived: and this is the rather observed, to induce Peter, a Jew, to go along with them to him, since his character was so very good, and he was in so much credit and esteem with the people; for he must be something extraordinary to have their good word, who had such an abhorrence of uncircumcised Gentiles in general: this man, they add, <p>was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house; they intimate hereby, that he did not send for him of himself, he was not led to it by any fancy of his own, or any curiosity in him; nor should he have presumed to have used such freedom with Peter, but that he had some instructions from God himself, who had sent an holy angel to him, and had ordered him to send men to Joppa, and fetch Peter from thence to his house, for the end next mentioned: <p>and to hear words of thee: the doctrines of the Gospel, and the ordinances of it: that being taught by the one, he and his might submit to the other. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/acts/10.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/acts/10.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/context/acts/10-22.htm" title="And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for you into his house, and to hear words of you....">Acts 10:22-25</a>. <span class="greekheb">Μαρτυρούμ</span>.] as in <a href="/acts/6-3.htm" title="Why, brothers, look you out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.">Acts 6:3</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ἐχρηματ</span>.] See on <a href="/matthew/2-12.htm" title="And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.">Matthew 2:12</a>. The communication on the part of the angel (<a href="/context/acts/10-4.htm" title="And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms are come up for a memorial before God....">Acts 10:4-7</a>) is understood as a divine <span class="ital">answer</span> to the constant prayer of Cornelius (<a href="/acts/10-2.htm" title="A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.">Acts 10:2</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Peter and his six (<a href="/acts/11-12.htm" title="And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brothers accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:">Acts 11:12</a>) companions had not traversed the thirty miles from Joppa to Caesarea in one day, and therefore arrived there only on the day after their departure. The messengers of Cornelius, too, had only arrived at Peter’s abode on the second day (<a href="/context/acts/10-8.htm" title="And when he had declared all these things to them, he sent them to Joppa....">Acts 10:8-9</a>), and had passed the night with him (<a href="/acts/10-23.htm" title="Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brothers from Joppa accompanied him.">Acts 10:23</a>), so that now (<span class="greekheb">τῇ ἐπαύριον</span>, <a href="/acts/10-24.htm" title="And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.">Acts 10:24</a>) it was the fourth day since their departure from Caesarea. Cornelius expected Peter on this day, for which, regarding it as a high family-festival, he had invited his (certainly like-minded) relatives and his intimate friends (<span class="greekheb">τοὺς ἀναγκ</span>. <span class="greekheb">φίλους</span>, see Wetstein; Kypke, II. p. 50).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ὡς δὲ ἐγένετο τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν τὸν Π</span>.] <span class="ital">but when it came to pass that Peter entered</span>. This construction is to be regarded as a very inaccurate, improper application of the current infinitive with <span class="greekheb">τιοῦ</span>. No comparison with the Hebrew <span class="greekheb">וַיְהִי לָבוֹא</span>, <a href="/genesis/15-12.htm" title="And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, see, an horror of great darkness fell on him.">Genesis 15:12</a> (Gesenius, Lehrgebr. p. 787), is to be allowed, because <span class="greekheb">וַיְהִי</span> does not stand absolutely, but has its subject beside it, and because the LXX. has never imitated this and similar expressions (Gesenius, l.c.) by <span class="greekheb">ἐγένετο τοῦ</span>. The want of corresponding passages, and the impossibility of rationally explaining the expression, mark it as a completely isolated[257] error of language, which Luke either himself committed or adopted from his original source,—and not (in opposition to Fritzsche, <span class="ital">ad Matth.</span> p. 848, and Rinck, <span class="ital">Lucubr. crit.</span> p. 64) as a corruption of the transcribers, seeing that the most important witnesses decide <span class="ital">in favour</span> of <span class="greekheb">τοῦ</span>, and its omission in the case of others is evidently a correction. Comp. now also Winer, p. 307 [E. T. 412].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ἐπὶ τ</span>. <span class="greekheb">πόδας</span>] <span class="ital">at the feet of Peter</span>. Comp. <a href="/luke/8-41.htm" title="And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and sought him that he would come into his house:">Luke 8:41</a>; <a href="/luke/17-16.htm" title="And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.">Luke 17:16</a>; <a href="/mark/5-22.htm" title="And, behold, there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,">Mark 5:22</a>; <a href="/john/11-32.htm" title="Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.">John 11:32</a>, <span class="ital">al.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">προσεκύνησε</span>] See on <a href="/matthew/2-2.htm" title="Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.">Matthew 2:2</a>. He very naturally conjectured, after the vision imparted to him, that there was something superhuman in the person of Peter (comp. on <a href="/luke/5-8.htm" title="When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.">Luke 5:8</a>); and to this, perhaps, the idea of heroes, to which the centurion had not yet become a stranger, contributed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[257] Even at <a href="/revelation/12-7.htm" title="And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,">Revelation 12:7</a> it is otherwise, as there, if we do not accede to the conjecture of Düsterdieck, <span class="greekheb">ἐγένετο</span> must be again mentally supplied with <span class="greekheb">ὁ Μιχαήλ</span>, but in the altered meaning: <span class="ital">there came forward, there appeared</span> (comp. on <a href="/mark/1-4.htm" title="John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.">Mark 1:4</a>; <a href="/john/1-6.htm" title="There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.">John 1:6</a>), so that it is to be translated: <span class="ital">And there came</span> (<span class="ital">i.e.</span> there set in, there resulted) <span class="ital">war in heaven: Michael</span> came, <span class="ital">and his angels, in order to wage war</span>. Among Greek writers also, as is well known, the verb to be repeated in thought is often to be taken in an altered meaning. Comp. <span class="ital">e.g.</span> Plat. <span class="ital">Rep.</span> p. 471 C, and Stallb. <span class="ital">in loc.</span> Least of all will such a supplement occasion difficulty in a prophetic representation, which is often stiff, angular, and abrupt in its delineation (as especially in Isaiah).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/acts/10.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/acts/10-22.htm" title="And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for you into his house, and to hear words of you.">Acts 10:22</a>. <span class="greekheb">δίκαιος</span>: “sensu Judaico” (Blass), <span class="ital">cf.</span> <a href="/luke/1-6.htm" title="And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.">Luke 1:6</a>; <a href="/luke/2-25.htm" title="And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was on him.">Luke 2:25</a>; <a href="/luke/23-50.htm" title="And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor; and he was a good man, and a just:">Luke 23:50</a>.—<span class="greekheb">μαρτ</span>., see on <a href="/acts/6-3.htm" title="Why, brothers, look you out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.">Acts 6:3</a>. <span class="greekheb">τε</span> closely joins it, as confirming the judgment. On construction with <span class="greekheb">ὑπό</span> in inscriptions, Deissmann, <span class="ital">Neue Bibelstudien</span>, p. 95.—<span class="greekheb">ἔθνους τῶν Ἰ</span>.: <span class="greekheb">ἔθνος</span> in the mouth of Gentiles, <span class="ital">cf.</span> <a href="/luke/7-5.htm" title="For he loves our nation, and he has built us a synagogue.">Luke 7:5</a> and see above on <a href="/acts/4-25.htm" title="Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?">Acts 4:25</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἐχρηματίσθη</span>: “was warned <span class="ital">of God</span>,” R.V., <a href="/matthew/2-12.htm" title="And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.">Matthew 2:12</a>; <a href="/matthew/2-22.htm" title="But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:">Matthew 2:22</a>, <a href="/luke/2-26.htm" title="And it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.">Luke 2:26</a>, <span class="ital">cf.</span> <a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm" title="Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, said he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.">Hebrews 8:5</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm" title="By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.">Hebrews 11:7</a>, and Jos., <span class="ital">Ant.</span>, iii., 8, 8; see Westcott, <span class="ital">Hebrews</span>, p. 217. For use of the active in LXX, see Jeremiah 33 (26) 2, <span class="ital">cf.</span> also <a href="/acts/11-26.htm" title="And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.">Acts 11:26</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἁγίου</span>: only here with <span class="greekheb">ἀγγέλου</span>, expressing the reverence of these pious men (Weiss).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/acts/10.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">22</span>. <span class="ital">of good report among all the nation of the Jews</span>] For the alms-deeds which he did, and on account of his reverence for the true God. They say not only among the people of Cæsarea was the piety of Cornelius known, but among all the Jews.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">was warned from God</span>] There is no Greek for “from God,” but the verb is one constantly used of messages from above. Thus of Joseph’s warnings (<a href="/matthew/2-12.htm" title="And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.">Matthew 2:12</a>; <a href="/matthew/2-22.htm" title="But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:">Matthew 2:22</a>), of Simeon’s Divine revelation (<a href="/luke/2-26.htm" title="And it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.">Luke 2:26</a>), and of the admonitions sent to Moses (<a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm" title="Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, said he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.">Hebrews 8:5</a>), and to Noah (<a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm" title="By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.">Hebrews 11:7</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">to hear words of thee</span>] i.e. to receive commandments from thee and learn what God would have him to do (cp. <a href="/acts/11-14.htm" title="Who shall tell you words, whereby you and all your house shall be saved.">Acts 11:14</a>). By the Jews the ten commandments are constantly called “the ten <span class="ital">words</span>,” “God spake these <span class="ital">words</span>, saying,” &c. (<a href="/exodus/20-1.htm" title="And God spoke all these words, saying,">Exodus 20:1</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/acts/10.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/acts/10-22.htm" title="And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for you into his house, and to hear words of you.">Acts 10:22</a>. <span class="greekheb">Δίκαιος</span>, <span class="ital">just</span>) Occupatio [The figure by which we anticipate an objection that might be started, and refute it: <span class="greekheb">ἀνθυποφόρα</span>].—<span class="greekheb">μεταπέμψασθαι</span>, <span class="ital">to send for</span>) Otherwise Cornelius himself would not have hesitated to come to Peter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 22.</span> - A <span class="accented">centurion</span> for <span class="accented">the centurion</span>, A.V.; <span class="accented">righteous for just</span>, A.V.; <span class="accented">well reported of</span> for <span class="accented">of good report among</span>, A.V.; <span class="accented">of God</span> (in italics) for <span class="accented">from God</span> (in roman), A.V.; a <span class="accented">holy</span> for <span class="accented">an holy</span>, A.V.; <span class="accented">from thee</span> for of <span class="accented">thee</span>, A.V. <span class="cmt_word">Righteous</span>; as <a href="/matthew/1-19.htm">Matthew 1:19</a> (comp. the description of Cornelius in ver. 10). The mention here of his being <span class="cmt_word">well reported of by all the nation of the Jews</span> is an additional trait (comp. <a href="/luke/7-2.htm">Luke 7:2-5</a>). For the expression, "of good report" (<span class="greek">μαρτυρούμενος</span>), see <a href="/acts/6-3.htm">Acts 6:3</a>, note. Of God. The rendering, "warned from God," however, fairly represents <span class="greek">ἐχρηματίσθη</span>, because <span class="greek">χρηματίζομαι</span> does not mean "to be warned," but "to be divinely warned." <span class="greek">Ξρηματίζεσθαι παρὰ Θεοῦ</span> <span class="greek">ἀποκάλυψιν δέχεσθαι</span>, (Theophylaet). See the frequent use of the word in the New Testament (<a href="/matthew/2-12.htm">Matthew 2:12</a>; <a href="/luke/2-26.htm">Luke 2:26</a>; <a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm">Hebrews 8:5</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">Hebrews 11:7</a>, etc.). Josephus frequently uses the verb in the active voice in the same sense. <span class="cmt_word">To hear words from thee</span>. A Hebrew turn of expression. 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