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Act 10:26. Ἤγειρε, raised him up) Why then is the kissing of the Pope’s feet not only admitted, but made an ordinary ceremony?-[κἀγὼ, I also) as Cornelius, Act 10:28. Cornelius is not said to have worshipped Peter; and yet Peter, for all that, does not fail to check him.-V. g.]-ἄνθρωπος) a man, not God. On this account we ought to control both our own exaltation (conceit of ourselves) and the admiration of others. We ought not to look with admiration on mortals, but on the gifts of GOD in them. [As the Galatians had received Paul (Gal 4:14), so Peter had received Cornelius.-V. g.]