Acts 10:2 (WEB)
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
Fathers and councils · 4
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore send to Simon, who is called Peter.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 1–5.
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Jerome
“Now of this man it is written: “there was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 1, 2.
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Tertullian
“…baptism, the honourable gift of the Holy Spirit, together with the gift of prophecy besides, had hastened to descend, we see that his fasts had been heard, I think, moreover, that the apostle too, in the Second of Corinthians, among his labours, and perils, and hardships, after “hunger and thirst,” enumerates…” — editor's note: See Acts x. 44–46, 1–4, 30.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“To this man, when he prayed about the ninth hour, appeared an angel bearing testimony to his labours, and saying, “Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are gone up in remembrance before God.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 2, 4.
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