and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.
We have here the meeting between Peter the apostle, and Cornelius the centurion. Though Paul was designed to be the apostle of the Gentiles, and to gather in the harvest among them, and Peter to be the apostle of the circumcision, yet it is ordered that Peter shall break the ice, and reap the first-fruits of the Gentiles, that the believing Jews, who retained too...
Commenting on Acts 10:19-33
And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard,.... What he was now particularly making to God, as well as others he had before put up to him: and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God; See Gill on Act 10:4.
And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. (4) Cornelius' faith demonstrated itself by prayer and charity.