<p>10:33 <i>So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Therefore, now we are all here in the presence of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord to say</i>- Cornelius had just said that he had seen an Angel standing &quot;before me&quot; (:30, s.w. &quot;in the presence of&quot;). He had been in the presence of the Angel, and he felt that that had now happened again. He felt the literal presence of the Angel who had appeared to him. But &quot;in the presence of God&quot; is the same phrase as has been used to describe how the prayers and works of Cornelius had come into &quot;the presence of God&quot; (:4,31). It is as if God's presence had come to earth; the sheet had been let down from Heaven to earth.</p>