Atti 10:26

26 Ma Pietro lo rialzò, dicendo: Lèvati, anch’io sono uomo!

Atti 10:26 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:26

But Peter took him up
As he lay at his feet, and lifted him up and set him on his legs:

saying, stand up;
and continue in this posture:

I myself also am a man;
a mortal man, a man of like passions with others, no better than others by nature: and it was by grace, and not any merit of his own, that he was a believer in Christ, and an apostle of his; and therefore he chose not to have any distinguishing homage and respect paid to him, and especially in any excessive and extravagant way; which though not designed, might carry in it a suggestion, as if he was more than a man.

Atti 10:26 In-Context

24 E il giorno di poi entrarono in Cesarea. Or Cornelio li stava aspettando e avea chiamato i suoi parenti e i suoi intimi amici.

25 E come Pietro entrava, Cornelio, fattoglisi incontro, gli si gittò ai piedi, e l’adorò.

26 Ma Pietro lo rialzò, dicendo: Lèvati, anch’io sono uomo!

27 E discorrendo con lui, entrò e trovò molti radunati quivi.

28 E disse loro: Voi sapete come non sia lecito ad un Giudeo di aver relazioni con uno straniero o d’entrare da lui; ma Dio mi ha mostrato che non debbo chiamare alcun uomo immondo o contaminato.