John Bengel Commentary - Acts 10:1 - 10:1

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 10:1 - 10:1


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Act 10:1. Ἀνὴρ, a man) Heretofore all the facts described took place among the circumcised: now we come also to the Gentiles.-ἐν Καισαρείᾳ, at Cæsarea) Already the doctrine of salvation was not unknown there: ch. Act 8:40. Comp. below, Act 10:37. For which reason Peter quotes the prophets, Act 10:43. Jerusalem was at that time the seat of the ecclesiastical government of the Jews: Cæsarea, of the civil government. The Gospel, preached as it was by those divinely taught, though unlearned men, took hold of each metropolis, which was followed by the other towns: it was so afterwards in the case of Philippi, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome itself.-Κορνήλιος, Cornelius) A frequent name among the Romans.-Ἰταλικῆς, the Italian) A considerable portion of these soldiers were alive at the time when these things were written; and they could bear witness of their truth. Οἱ τῆς σπείρης τῆς Ἰταλικῆς πεζοἰ, the foot-soldiers of the Italian Band, are mentioned also by Arrian, as C. G. Schwarzius observes in his dissertation on the Italian and Augustan cohort or band, p. 42.