And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
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 “Codices,” manuscripts. have ημην, I sat.
Peter mused on the vision, perplexed, until the Spirit explained it to him directly. Those who would understand Scripture must meditate on it; when we are lost, we look to God for direction. The Spirit whispered it into his mind as a divine afflatus, just as God once spoke to Samuel.
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Commenting on Acts 10:19-33
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...