. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. Skins are very much used inthe East for bottles, as well as for oth-er domestic purposes. The businessreferred to here was that of preparingskins for various uses. As it ledto contact with dead animals, the busi-ness was held in dishonor by the takes this to be a mark ofPeters humility, that he chose to lodgewith a despised countryman. Thetrade was held in disrepute by othernations also. CHAPTEPv X. BOOK III. ClIUKCH AMONG THE GeNTILES. Part I.— Spread of Christian-ity among the Devout Gentiles— Witnesses to the ut
. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. Skins are very much used inthe East for bottles, as well as for oth-er domestic purposes. The businessreferred to here was that of preparingskins for various uses. As it ledto contact with dead animals, the busi-ness was held in dishonor by the takes this to be a mark ofPeters humility, that he chose to lodgewith a despised countryman. Thetrade was held in disrepute by othernations also. CHAPTEPv X. BOOK III. ClIUKCH AMONG THE GeNTILES. Part I.— Spread of Christian-ity among the Devout Gentiles— Witnesses to the uttermostparts of the earth. A. D. 40-44. Chs. 10-12 . 2 17. Vision of Cornelius at Cesa-REA, AND Vision of Peter at Jop-pa—Reception of Gentiles intoTHE Church independently ofJudaism. The Gospel had now been preachedby the Apostles to Hebrew, Hellenist,and Proselyte, Samaritan and Ethi-opian, successively. It is henceforthto go to the Gentiles resident inJudea. Up to this point the ad-vance of Christianity had been fromJerusalem among the Jews, through. lAlfi^lii. IiniiI, ill if A. D. 40.] CHAP. X. CHAPTER X. 1 There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a con-turion of the band called the Italian band. 2 ^A devout man, and one that feared God with all his cbkT-ini^i:house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to V^s. alway. ml Judea, and also in Samaria, and bythe eunuch toward the uttermost partsof the earth. Now occurs the first re-ception of devout Gentiles to theChurch, without coming through the gate-viay of Judaism. The devout eunuchwas at any rate an exceptional case,as one of an extraordinary class. TheApostle of the circumcision is broughtforward as instituting this new move-ment, himself having the vision ofthis change, and introducing Corne-lius as the first fruits of the half-way Jews, uncircumcised. Peter ap-pears, thus, as stretching his handover the transition gulf to Paul, andbridging it over for a free passage toall. It is the r
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