The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated…The commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated…

In his name. The old interpreter hath, To his name, which is almost all one: though the preposition epi may be otherwise translated: to wit: For his name, or upon his name. Neither shall the sense disagree, that the salvation of the Gentiles is grounded in the power or name of god, and that God did respect no other thing in calling them, but his own glory: yet did I retain that which is more usual: to wit, that in numbering them among his people, he would have them counted in his name, like as it shall be said shortly after, that his name is called upon by all those, whom he gathereth together into his church. The adverb of time proton, may be expounded two ways: if you read it: first, as the old interpreter and Erasmus have it, the sense shall be that Cornelius and others, were as it were the first fruits, at whom God began the calling of the Gentiles: but it may be taken also comparatively, because there was already some token of the adoption of the Gentiles showed in Cornelius and his cousins before that Barnabas and Paul preached the gospel to the Gentiles. And I do better like this latter sense.

In his name. The old interpreter hath, To his name, which is almost all one: though the preposition epi may be otherwise translated: to wit: For his name, or vpon his name. Neither shal the sense disagree, that the saluation of the Gentiles is grounded in the power or name of god, and that God did respect no other thing in calling them, but his own glory: yet did I retaine that which is more vsuall: to wit, that in numbring them among his people, he would haue them counted in his name, like as it shalbe said shortly after, that his name is called vpon by all those, whom he gathereth together into his church. The aduerbe of time proton, may be expounded two wayes: if you read it: first, as the old interpreter and Erasmus haue it, the sense shalbe that Cornelius and others, were as it were the first frutes, at whō God began the calling of the Gentiles: but it may be taken also comparitiuely, because there was already some token of the adoption of the Gentiles shewed in Cornelius and his cosins before that Barnabas and Paul preached the gospel to the Gentiles. And I do better like this latter sense.