Acts 10:15

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

Acts 10:15 in Other Translations

15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time,What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

15 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."

15 But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

15 The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."

15 Again, a second time, a voice said to him, "What God has made clean, you must not call common."

Acts 10:15 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:15

And the voice spake unto him again the second time
The following words,

what God hath cleansed;
that is, hath pronounced clean and lawful to be used, as he now had all sorts of food, ( Matthew 15:11 ) ( Romans 14:14 ) ( 1 Timothy 4:4 ) .

[that] call not thou common;
or pronounce it to be unholy or unclean, and unlawful to be used: and the same holds good of men, as well as things; for as hereby the Lord instructed Peter, that there was nothing of itself common, or unclean, and unfit for use; so that no man, not any Gentile, Barbarian, Scythian, or be he who he would, was common or unclean, and his company to be avoided as such. Distinctions both of men and meats were now to be laid aside; and the Jews themselves own, that what is now unclean, will be clean in the time to come, or the times of the Messiah; they say ^F6,

``every beast which is unclean in this world, the holy
blessed God
(htwa rhjm) , cleanses it,
in the time to come, (the times of the Messiah,) as they were at first clean to the sons of Noah ( Genesis 9:3 ) , wherefore, as the herb was clean to all, and as the beasts were clean to the sons of Noah; so also in the time to come he will loose what he has bound, or forbidden.''

And particularly they observe, that a swine is call (ryzh) from (rzh) , "to return", because the Lord will return it unto Israel. ^F7

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 R. Moses Haddarsan in Galatin. l. 11. c. 12. & Bereshit Rabba in Pugio Fidei, c. 12. sect. 1.
F7 Abarbinel Rosh Amana, c. 12. fol. 18. 2.

Acts 10:15 In-Context

13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

17 While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate.

Cross References

• 1. ver 28; Genesis 9:3; Matthew 15:11; Luke 11:41; Acts 11:9; Ro 14:14,17,20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; 1 Timothy 4:3,4; Titus 1:15