[15] Ps. lxxxvii. 3. [16] Acts ii. 1-3. [17] Isa. xi. 2, 3. [18] Acts ii. 1-13. [19] Acts ii. 14-41. [20] St. Matt. xvi. 18. [21] Acts ii. 47. [22] Acts iii. [23] Acts iv. [24] Acts iv. 36, 37. [25] Acts v. 12-16. [26] Acts ii. 41-47. [27] 2 Thess. ii. 15. See also ch. iii. 6. 1 Cor. xi. 2. "Ordinances," margin "Traditions." [28] Acts ii. 46 (margin). [29] Acts iv. 31-37. [30] Eph. v. 29, 30. [31] Poems by Prof. Bright.. [32] Acts iii. 1. [33] Acts iii. 11. [34] Acts v. 42. [35] Acts xiii. 5. 14; xiv. 1; xvii. 1, 2; xviii. 4. [36] Acts xxi. 26-33. [37] Acts v. 1-14. [38] Acts vi. 1, &c. [39] Deacon, from "Diaconos," a Greek word, meaning a ministering attendant. [40] Acts vi. 7. [41] Rev. ii. 6. 15. [42] Acts viii. 5. 38. [43] See Office for "Making of Deacons," Book of Common Prayer. [44] Cp. Acts iv. 1, 2, 5, 6, and Acts v. 17. [45] Acts ii. 47; iv. 21; v. 13. 26. [46] Acts v. 34-40. [47] It seems not unlikely that Saul of Tarsus in Cilicia was one "of them of Cilicia" mentioned in Acts vi. 9. [48] St. Luke xii. 11, 12. [49] Acts vii. 56. [50] Acts viii. 1. 4. [51] Acts xi. 19, 20. [52] It may be, that the recollection of our Saviour's visit to the neighbouring city of Sychar, or Sichem [St. John iv.], would help to influence the Samaritans. [53] From the rather indistinct account of Simon's death, it seems probable that he became a victim to such a temptation as the "Cast Thyself down," which was set before our Lord. [54] Acts xi. 19, 20. [55] Acts xi. 26. [56] See "Some Account of the Church in the Apostolic Age," by the late Professor Shirley, p. 27. [57] Acts ix. 32. {25} CHAPTER II The Foundation of the Church among the Heathen A.D. 38-45 [Sidenote: A.D. 38] During St. Peter's journey, the course of God's good Providence led him to the sea-port town of Joppa, on the borders of Samaria and Judaea, and there we read that "he tarried many days," a measure of time which is supposed to be equivalent to three years. At the expiration of this time an event occurred which had a deep and lasting influence on the life of the Church of Christ. [Sidenote: Further fulfilment of the promise to St. Peter.] Hitherto no Gentiles had been admitted into her fold; but now it was to be given to St. Peter first to unlock to them the door of union with Christ through His Human Nature; for to him had first been committed the Power of the Keys, as a reward for his adoring confession of Christ's Divinity[1]. Section 1. _The Conversion of Cornelius._