Acts 10:28 - Exposition

Ye yourselves for ye, A.V.; to join himself for to keep company, A.V.; and yet unto me hath God showed for but God hath showed me, A.V. Ye yourselves know . It was notorious among the Romans that the Jews kept themselves aloof from other people. Hence the accusation against them, in common with Christians, of being haters of the human race. Tacitus says of them that they hated all people, except their own countrymen, as their enemies, and refused to eat or intermarry with them ("Separati epulis discreti cubilibus;" 'Hist.,' 5.5). The word ἀλλόφυλος , one of another nation , occurs only here in the New Testament, but is common in the LXX . often as a synonym for "Philistines" (see 3:3 , etc.). This rather refutes Meyer's remark that "the designation (of Gentiles) here is tenderly forbearing."