And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
45. The faithful were astonished. He calleth them faithful who were as yet possessed with a wicked error. So the Lord doth not by and by wipe away all clouds of ignorance from his, and yet they do not darken the praise of faith before God, because he pardoneth errors and doth vouchsafe to favor it, as if it were pure and plain.
While Peter was still preaching, God interrupted him with the Holy Ghost falling on all who heard. The Spirit came before baptism, before circumcision, because God is not bound to our methods. He proved Peter was sent by Him and showed that the Spirit, not the flesh, quickens. Abraham was justified in uncircumcision; these Gentiles received the Spirit unbaptized.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 10:44-48
And they of the circumcision which believed,.... Or "of the Jews that believed", as the Ethiopic version renders it; the circumcised Jews who believed in Jesus Christ: were astonished, as many as came with Peter; who were six brethren, as appears from Act 11:12 these were amazed, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out of the gift of the Holy Ghost; which they...