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Acts 10:9 (WEB)
Now on the next day as they were on their journey and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

Fathers and councils · 6

Origen, Against Celsus II.1Book II
“And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call thou not common.”” — editor's note: Cf. Acts x. 9–15.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 55
““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, Letters Letter 125
“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, On Fasting Chapter 10
“Nay, but you would more easily find that Peter at the sixth hour had, for the sake of taking food, gone up first on the roof to pray; so that the sixth hour of the day may the rather be made the limit to this duty, which (in Peter’s case) was apparently to finish that duty, after prayer.” — editor's note: See Acts x. 9.
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Tertullian, On Prayer Chapter 25
“Peter, on the day on which he experienced the vision of Universal Community, (exhibited) in that small vessel, had ascended into the more lofty parts of the house, for prayer’s sake “at the sixth hour.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 9.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 32
“…revealeth, illumineth, quickeneth, or rather is the very Light and Life; That maketh Temples; That deifieth; That perfecteth so as even to anticipate Baptism, yet after Baptism to be sought as a separate gift; That doeth all things that God doeth; divided into fiery tongues; dividing gifts; making Apostles, Prophets,…” — editor's note: As in the case of the Centurion Cornelius, Acts x. 9.
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