Acts 10:1

1 vir autem quidam erat in Caesarea nomine Cornelius centurio cohortis quae dicitur Italica

Acts 10:1 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:1

There was a certain man in Caesarea
This was the Caesarea formerly called Strato's tower, not Caesarea Philippi; for the former, and not the latter, lay near Joppa:

called Cornelius;
which was a Roman name, and he himself was a Roman or an Italian:

a centurion of the band called the Italian band;
which consisted of soldiers collected out of Italy, from whence the band took its name, in which Cornelius was a centurion, having a hundred men under him, as the name of his office signifies.

Acts 10:1 In-Context

1 vir autem quidam erat in Caesarea nomine Cornelius centurio cohortis quae dicitur Italica

2 religiosus et timens Deum cum omni domo sua faciens elemosynas multas plebi et deprecans Deum semper

3 vidit in visu manifeste quasi hora nona diei angelum Dei introeuntem ad se et dicentem sibi Corneli

4 at ille intuens eum timore correptus dixit quid est domine dixit autem illi orationes tuae et elemosynae tuae ascenderunt in memoriam in conspectu Dei

5 et nunc mitte viros in Ioppen et accersi Simonem quendam qui cognominatur Petrus