“He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.”
One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, 'Cornelius!'—the vision occurs at the ninth hour (3 PM), the hour of temple sacrifice and prayer; timing suggests divine attunement to human worship. The angel's greeting of Cornelius by name personalizes the summons; this is direct divine address. Cornelius's receptivity to the vision indicates his spiritual openness.
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