Actes 10:13

13 Et une voix lui dit: Lève-toi, Pierre, tue et mange.

Actes 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.

Actes 10:13 In-Context

11 Il vit le ciel ouvert, et un objet semblable à une grande nappe attachée par les quatre coins, qui descendait et s'abaissait vers la terre,

12 et où se trouvaient tous les quadrupèdes et les reptiles de la terre et les oiseaux du ciel.

13 Et une voix lui dit: Lève-toi, Pierre, tue et mange.

14 Mais Pierre dit: Non, Seigneur, car je n'ai jamais rien mangé de souillé ni d'impur.

15 Et pour la seconde fois la voix se fit encore entendre à lui: Ce que Dieu a déclaré pur, ne le regarde pas comme souillé.