But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
35. He which feareth God, and doth righteousness. In these two members is comprehended the integrity of all the whole life. For the fear of God is nothing else but godliness and religion; and righteousness is that equity which men use among themselves, taking heed lest they hurt any man, and studying to do good to all men.
Peter opened his mouth with freedom and weight, as a man who had been locked silent to the uncircumcised until God opened it. He first establishes what must be clear or neither he nor they could preach or hear with comfort: God respects no man's person, but judges by merit alone, and so the Gospel belongs to Gentile and Jew equally.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 10:34-43
But in every nation,.... In any Gentile nation in the Roman empire, and in any part, even in Scythia, or in the most uncultivated parts of the universe, as well as in Judea: he that feareth him; God, not with a slavish fear, or with the fear of punishment to be inflicted by him, with a fear of hell and damnation, with which Cain, Pharaoh...