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 {Cornelius} (Korn(886c)ios). The great Cornelian family of
Rome may have had a freedman or descendant who is {centurion}
(hekaton-tarch(8873), leader of a hundred, Latin _centurio_). See
on 烘t 8:5|. These Roman centurions always appear in a favourable
light in the N.T. ( Mt 8:5  Lu 7:2  23:47  Ac 10:1  22:25  27:3 ). Furneaux notes the contrasts between Joppa, the oldest
town in Palestine, and Caesarea, built by Herod; the Galilean
fisherman lodging with a tanner and the Roman officer in the seat
of governmental authority. {Of the band called the Italian} (ek
speir(8873) t(8873) kaloumen(8873) Italik(8873)). A legion had ten cohorts or
"bands" and sixty centuries. The word speir(8873) (note genitive in
-es like the Ionic instead of -as) is here equal to the Latin
_cohors_. In the provinces were stationed cohorts of Italic
citizens (volunteers) as an inscription at Carnuntum on the
Danube (Ramsay) has shown (epitaph of an officer in the second
Italic cohort). Once more Luke has been vindicated. The soldiers
could, of course, be Roman citizens who lived in Caesarea. But
the Italian cohorts were sent to any part of the empire as
needed. The procurator at Caesarea would need a cohort whose
loyalty he could trust, for the Jews were restless.

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