ent for. I
ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me?

10:30. And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto this hour, I was praying
in my house, at the ninth hour and behold a man stood before me in white
apparel and said:

10:31. Cornelius, thy prayer is heard and thy alms are had in
remembrance in the sight of God.

10:32. Send therefore to Joppe: and call hither Simon, who is surnamed
Peter. He lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side.

10:33. Immediately therefore I sent to thee: and thou hast done well in
coming. Now, therefore, all we are present in thy sight to hear all
things whatsoever are commanded thee by the Lord.

10:34. And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that
God is not a respecter of persons.

10:35. But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is
acceptable to him.

In every nation, etc... That is to say, not only Jews, but Gentiles
also, of what nation soever, are acceptable to God, if they fear him and
work justice. But then true faith is always to be presupposed, without
which (saith St. Paul, Heb. 11. 6) it is impossible to please God.
Beware then of the error of those, who would infer from this passage,
that men of all religions may be pleasing to God. For since none but the
true religion can be from God, all other religions must be from the
father of lies, and therefore highly displeasing to the God of truth.

10:36. God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace by
Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all).

10:37. You know the word which hath been published through all Judea:
for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached.

10:38. Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and
with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

10:39. And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the
Jews and in Jerusalem: whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

10:40. Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made manifest,

10:41. Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even
to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the
dead.

10:42. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that
it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the
dead.

10:43. To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all
receive remission of sins,