And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
42. And he commanded us. He beginneth in this place to intreat of the kingdom of Christ, when he saith that Christ did rise again for this cause, that he may once judge the world. For by the same right are the government of heaven and earth, and the perpetual government of the Church, due to him.
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.
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Commenting on Acts 10:34-43
And he commanded us, to preach unto the people,.... Not only of the Jews, but of the Gentiles; to all nations, to the whole world, and every creature; for the apostle seems to refer to the commission given to him, and the rest of the apostles, after Christ's resurrection, Mat 28:19.