4And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The bringing of the gospel to the Gentiles, and the bringing of those who had been strangers and foreigners to be fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, were such a mystery to the apostles themselves, and such a surprise ( Eph. 3:3 , 6 ), that it concerns us carefully to observe all the circumstances of the beginning of this great work, this part of the mystery of godliness—…
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