...saw " in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God ;"|| and he says himself, "I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house." " Peter went up upon the house-top to pray about the sixth hour." " At midnight Paul and Silas prayed,...

...duty. Paul says, " Approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in labors, in watchings, in fastings." Cornelius said, " Four days ago, I was fasting until...prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God." Anna, the prophetess, served God with fastings and prayers, night and day. II....

...xvi. 49. ' Jnel ii. 12. groom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. 5 Cornelius said, Four days ago, I was fasting until...clothing, and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy alms had in remembrance, in the sight of God. 6 And as certain prophets and teachers, with Barnabas...

...without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for : I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me ? 30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until...ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, "a man n an angel appeared to me in the shape of a man stood before me in in bright shining apparel, bright...

...angel.' Nay, Cornelius himself, when Peter came to him, spoke as if it had been no vision. ' Four day s ago, I was fasting until this hour ; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and bcliold a man stood before me and said.' Was this not, at once, both a vision and a reality ? Could...

...without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for : I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me ?" And Cornelius said, " Four days ago I was fasting...prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. Send therefore- to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter ; he is...

...an holy angel." Nay, Cornelius himself, when Peter came to him, spoke as if it had been no vision. " Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour ; and...prayed in my house, and behold a man stood before me and said." Was this not, at once, both a vision and a reality ? Could God's purposes be more distinctly...

...reference is to what Cornelius had told him, in verses 90, 31, " of the man that had stood before him in bright clothing, and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God ;" and also of his own mission to Cornelius, in compliance with a direct heavenly...

...friends. And from the lips of the good Centurion, the Apostle hears this simple but astonishing recital. " Four days ago I was fasting until this hour ; and at the ninth hour I prayed in mine house ; and behold a man stood before me in bright clothing, and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is...

...him to Joppa, 8 " Four days ago, I was fasting unto this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in mine house, and, behold a man stood before me in bright...and thine alms are had in remembrance before God." Thus Hannah and Cornelius experienced that " the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears...