Acts 10:30 - Exposition

Until this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer for I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour I prayed, A.V. and T.R.; apparel for clothing, A.V. Four days ago . This was the fourth day (see Acts 10:23 , note). Until this hour , etc. The reading of the R.T. is not adopted by Meyer or Alford, and the R.V. is unintelligible. The A.V. seems to give the meaning clearly and accurately. Until this hour probably denotes the sixth hour, midday, as in Acts 10:9 . Peter's journey would naturally have been taken in the cool of the early morning. Starting at 5 or 6 a.m., five hours, with perhaps an hour's halt, would bring him to the end of his fifteen miles' journey by 11 or 12 a.m. Apparel . The same phrase, ἐσθὴς λαμπρά , is used by St. Luke ( Luke 23:11 ). In the description of the transfiguration a stronger expression is used, ἐξαστράπτων , dazzling.