Atti 10:13

13 Ed una voce gli fu indirizzata, dicendo: Levati, Pietro, ammazza, e mangia.

Atti 10:13 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:13

And there came a voice to him
Formed by an angel, or rather by Christ himself:

rise, Peter, kill and eat;
he might be on his knees when he fell into this trance, being at prayer, and therefore is bid to rise; and he is called by name, the more to encourage him to do as he was ordered; and he is bid to kill and eat of all the creatures without distinction, which were represented to him in the sheet; and the design of this was to teach him, that both the distinction between clean and unclean creatures in the law was now abolished, and men might lawfully eat of whatsoever they pleased; and that he might and should without any difference converse with all sorts of men, Jews and Gentiles, circumcised and uncircumcised, and preach the Gospel to one as to another, and maintain a church communion and fellowship with all equally alike.

Atti 10:13 In-Context

11 E vide il cielo aperto, ed una vela simile ad un gran lenzuolo, che scendeva sopra lui, legato per li quattro capi, e calato in terra;

12 nella quale vi erano degli animali terrestri a quattro piedi, e delle fiere, e de’ rettili, e degli uccelli del cielo d’ogni maniera.

13 Ed una voce gli fu indirizzata, dicendo: Levati, Pietro, ammazza, e mangia.

14 Ma Pietro disse: In niun modo, Signore, poichè io non ho giammai mangiato nulla d’immondo, nè di contaminato.

15 E la voce gli disse la seconda volta: Le cose che Iddio ha purificate, non farle tu immonde.