A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Ver. 2. A devout man, &c.] ευσεβης. Not of the king's religion, whatever it be, as those Melchites it, Nicephorus. And as Tertullian tells us in his Apology, that the people were bound to worship those gods only that the Senate decreed should be worshipped. Cornelius was a right worshipper.
With all his house] A man is really what he is relatively. David would show his sincerity by being good at home,Psalms 101:2 .