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Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 10] [Table of Contents] [Previous] [Next] 10:1 {Cornelius} (\Korn•lios\). The great Cornelian family of Rome may have had a freedman or descendant who is {centurion} (\hekaton-tarch•s\, leader of a hundred, Latin _centurio_). See on ¯Mt 8:5. These Roman centurions always appear in a favourable light in the N.T. (Mt 8:5; Lu 7:2; 23:47; Ac 10:1; 22:25; 27:3). Furneaux notes the contrasts between Joppa, the oldest town in Palestine, and Caesarea, built by Herod; the Galilean fisherman lodging with a tanner and the Roman officer in the seat of governmental authority. {Of the band called the Italian} (\ek speir•s t•s kaloumen•s Italik•s\). A legion had ten cohorts or "bands" and sixty centuries. The word \speir•s\ (note genitive in \-es\ like the Ionic instead of \-as\) is here equal to the Latin _cohors_. In the provinces were stationed cohorts of Italic citizens (volunteers) as an inscription at Carnuntum on the Danube (Ramsay) has shown (epitaph of an officer in the second Italic cohort). Once more Luke has been vindicated. The soldiers could, of course, be Roman citizens who lived in Caesarea. But the Italian cohorts were sent to any part of the empire as needed. The procurator at Caesarea would need a cohort whose loyalty he could trust, for the Jews were restless. 10:2 {Devout} (\euseb•s\). Old word from \eu\ (well) and \sebomai\ (to worship, to reverence), but rare in the N.T. (Ac 10:2,7; 2Pe 2:1). It might refer to a worshipful pagan (Ac 17:23, \sebasmata\, objects of worship), but connected with "one that feared God" (\phoboumenos ton theon\) Luke describes "a God-fearing proselyte" as in 10:22,35. This is his usual term for the Gentile seekers after God (13:16, 26;17:4,17, etc.), who had come into the worship of the synagogue without circumcision, and were not strictly proselytes, though some call such men "proselytes of the gate" (cf. Ac 13:43); but clearly Cornelius and his family were still regarded as outside the pale of Judaism (10:28,34; 11:1,8; 15:7). They had seats in the synagogue, but were not Jews. {Gave much alms} (\poi•n eleemosunas pollas\). Doing many alms (the very phrase in Mt 6:2), a characteristic mark of Jewish piety and from a Gentile to the Jewish people. {Prayed} (\deomenos\). Begging of God. Almsgiving and prayer were two of the cardinal points with the http://www.ccel.org/r/robertson_at/wordpictures/htm/AC10.RWP.html (1 of 15) [28/08/2004 09:06:41 a.m.] Word Pictures in the New Testament (Acts: Chapter 10)

<strong>Word</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> NT [Acts: Chapter 9]<br />

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(Acts: Chapter 9)

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