106. Then, again, because the Angel is sent
to Cornelius, the Holy Spirit speaks to Peter: “For the
eyes of the Lord are over the faithful of the earth.” Ps. ci. [c.]
6. Nor is it without a purpose that when
He had said before, “What God hath cleansed call not thou
common,” Acts x. 15. the Holy Spirit
came upon the Gentiles to purify them, when it is manifest that the
operation of the Spirit is a divine operation. But Peter, when
sent by the Spirit, did not wait for the command of God the Father, but
acknowledged that that message was from the Spirit Himself, and the
grace that of the Spirit Himself, when he said: “If, then,
God has granted them the same grace as to us, who was I that I should
resist God?”