Acts 15:7-8

3. Speech of Peter , Acts 15:7-11 .

A good while ago The Greek has a very peculiar wording, signifying from ancient days. The apostle speaks as if the days so near to Christ seemed to him already a dim antiquity. He refers to the conversion of Cornelius about ten years agone. We see not the slightest reason for referring his language, as some do, to Christ’s counferring the keys, (Matthew 16:19,) for, 1. The keys were conferred on all the apostles alike, and not upon Peter alone; and, 2. There is no reason to suppose that the keys referred with any specialty to the admission of the Gentiles.