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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 10:2

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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.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

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

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