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Identifier: earlydaysofchrist00gran (find matches)
Title: The early days of Christianity
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Grant, Frederick C. (Frederick Clifton), 1891-1974
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the one God,obedience to his law (the Law of Moses), and observanceof the Jewish customs. Now, there was at that time stationed in Caesarea,the capital of the province of Judaea and Samaria, acenturion of the Italian cohort (cohors Italica) namedCornelius. He was a very devout man, who fearedGod with all his household, gave much alms to thepeople, and always prayed (Acts lo: 2). He remindsus of the other centurion described by Saint Luke, whobuilt the synagogue at Capernaum (Luke 7:5). It maybe that he had heard of Peter or the other apostles.Possibly he had been to Jerusalem and there heard ofthe followers of Jesus. Or perhaps he had even heardthe preaching of Philip (Acts 8:40). At any rate hehad a vision, one afternoon about three, at the hour ofprayer, in which an angel appeared to him and directedhim to send to Joppa for Peter. Cornelius at once calledtwo of his servants, and one of the faithful soldiers whoformed his bodyguard, told them of the vision, andsent them to Joppa,
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-^ ,-(• XA^ Utt Ak^i CORNELIUS THE CENTURION 95 Peters vision.—Stranger still was a vision whichPeter had the following day. It was about noon, andhe had gone up on the housetop to pray. He was hungry,but the light noon meal was not yet ready. (Jews oftenate no lunch, only breakfast and dinner; the Greeksand Romans ate three meals like us.) As he prayed hefell into a trance, and saw a strange vessel descendingfrom the sky. It seemed like a vast sheet suspendedfrom heaven by the four corners, and in it were aU sortsof animals and fowls. It seemed to him that he hearda voice saying, ^Rise, Peter, kill and eat. This wasshocking to a faithful Jew, for the Old Testament for-bade many kinds of animal food, and the Jews strictlyobserved the laws about clean and unclean meats (asorthodox Jews still do). Peter replied, Not so. Lord; for Ihave never eaten anything common or unclean. And asecond time the voice was heard, answering his scruples,What God has cleansed make not thou common. Thre

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