ACTS 10:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.”
'So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.'—the Spirit's instruction is clear and urgent: no hesitation. The divine ownership ('I have sent them') validates these Gentile messengers as instruments of divine purpose. Peter must act on faith that the pagan soldiers carry divine authorization. 'Do not hesitate' (mēdēn diakrinō, 'do not distinguish/judge') echoes the prior theme: do not call unclean what God has made clean.
Church Fathers on Acts 10:20
called, and asked, whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodging there. Acts 10:18 As it was a mean looking house, they asked below, they inquired of the neighbors. And while Peter thought, the Spirit said to him, Arise, get you down, and go, nothing doubting, for I have sent them. (v. 19, 20.) And he does not say, For to this end did the vision appear unto you; but,
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