Acts 10:3 - Exposition

Openly for evidently, A.V.; as it were about for about, A.V. and T.R.; unto for to, and to for unto, A.V. Openly ; or, evidently ( φανερῶς ) , indicates the distinctness and certainty of the vision. It was, as Meyer says, a clear angelic appearance; there was no indistinctness or confusion about it, and consequently it left no kind of doubt in the mind of Cornelius. An angel ; or rather, the angel; the addition of God defines it (see Acts 5:19 , note).