Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:30
30. Until this hour Until this time on that day. He does not mean that he has now been fasting four days, but that he fasted to about this hour of day on the day of the angel’s appearance, namely, the fourth day before his present speaking. read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:1-48
PART SECOND. THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION FROM JEWS TO GENTILES, Acts 8:5 to Acts 12:25. Through this Second Part of his history Luke traces in perfectly regular progress the successive steps by which Christianity emerges from her Jewish trammels into a free and universal Church. The Samaritans are first evangelized, and the eunuch is the first apostle to Africa. The Gentile apostle is next converted and put in preparation for his work. Peter, emerging from Jerusalem, is taught by the case of... read more