Acts 10:3 (WEB)
At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Catechism · 1
“In the meantime, the whole life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 5:18-20; 8:26-29; 10:3-8; 12:6-11; 27:23-25.
Fathers and councils · 5
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore send to Simon, who is called Peter.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 1–5.
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Augustine of Hippo
““In evening, in morning, at noon-day I will recount and will tell forth, and He shall hearken to my voice” (ver. 18).” — editor's note: [Acts ii. 15, iii. 1, x. 3, x. 9. The Apostles observed the “hours of prayer;” and they survive, theoretically, in the liturgies of Christendom. A.N.F. vol.…
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Jerome
“For through the mercy of God you have already put your hand to the plough; you have already gone up upon the housetop like the apostle Peter.” — editor's note: Acts x. 3–16.
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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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Basil the Great
“The angel who stood by Cornelius was not at one and the same moment with Philip; nor yet did the angel who spoke with Zacharias from the altar at the same time occupy his own post in heaven.” — editor's note: Acts x. 3.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 22.