Albert Barnes on Acts 10:3
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Acts10:3
He saw in a vision. Acts 9:10.
Evidently. Openly; manifestly.
About the ninth hour. About three o'clock, P.M. This was the usual hour of evening worship among the Jews.
An angel of God. Mt 1:20. Comp Heb 1:14. This angel was sent to signify to Cornelius that his alms were accepted by God as an evidence of his piety, and to direct him to send for Peter to instruct him in the way of salvation. The importance of the occasion--the introduction of the gospel to a Gentile, and hence to the entire Gentile world--was probably the chief reason why an angel was commissioned to visit the Roman centurion. Comp. Acts 16:9,10.
(d) "an angel of God" Heb 1:14
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