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Act 10:30. Ἀπὸ, from) from the beginning of the day, which, counting backwards, is the fourth day, up to the present day and this hour of the day.-τετάρτης, fourth) The first day (counting backwards, the fourth) was the day of the vision and of sending the messengers: the second, was the day of the arrival of the messengers: the third, the day of the setting out of Peter: the fourth, the day of his arrival at Cornelius’ house [Act 10:3; Act 10:9; Act 10:23-24].-ἤμην νηστεύων, I was fasting) It is not meant that he fasted for four days, but on the fourth day, counting backwards. [These acts were praiseworthy; yet Cornelius recounts them with humble simplicity.-V. g.-τὴν ἐννάτην ὥραν, the ninth hour) Cornelius may have imitated the Israelites in this respect: ch. Act 3:1, “Peter and John went up-into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.”-V. g.]