42And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. …
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-43)We have here Peter’s sermon preached to Cornelius and his friends: that is, an abstract or summary of it; for we have reason to think that he did with many other words testify and exhort to this purport. It is intimated that he expressed himself with a great deal of solemnity and gravity, but with freedom and copiousness, in that phrase, he opened his mouth, and spoke , Acts 10:34. O ye Corinthian…
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