he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’
We Gentiles sit in darkness until the gospel reaches us, and that is cause for joy. Yet here the Jerusalem church hears this news with shock, as though they had not been commanded to preach to every creature. Pride and bigotry hold fast against the clearest discoveries of divine truth.
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Commenting on Acts 11:1-18
And as I began to speak,...., That is, whilst he was speaking; the word "begin" with Luke, both, in his Gospel and in this history, is used not to denote the time or order of any action, but the thing itself; as in Luk 4:21 for otherwise it was towards the close, and not at the beginning of his discourse, that what follows happened: the...
Verse 14. And all thy house. Thy family. This is a circumstance which is omitted in the account in . It is said, however, in , that Cornelius feared God with all his house. And it is evident, from , that the family also received the ordinance of baptism, and was received into the church. (c) "tell thee words"