Actes 11:6

6 Et l'ayant considéré avec attention, j'y vis les quadrupèdes de la terre, les bêtes sauvages, les reptiles et les oiseaux du ciel.

Actes 11:6 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:6

Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes
Not of his body, but of his mind; for this was only in vision presented to him, when he was as Paul was, not knowing whether in the body or out of it:

I considered:
being intent upon this object, he considered in his mind what it was, and what it should mean; it being something strange and unusual; which came down from heaven, and out of it, and came so close and near to him, that it engrossed all his thoughts, and was the subject of deep meditation:

and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and
creeping things, and fowls of the air;
not pourtrayed upon the sheet, but standing or walking upon it; the Syriac Version leaves out, "the wild beasts"; and the Ethiopic versions, "the creeping things"; but both are in the Greek copies, and in other versions.

Actes 11:6 In-Context

4 Mais Pierre se mit à leur raconter par ordre, et dit:

5 J'étais en prière dans la ville de Joppe, lorsque étant ravi en extase, j'eus une vision; je vis descendre du ciel un vase comme une grande nappe retenue par les quatre coins, et qui vint jusqu'à moi.

6 Et l'ayant considéré avec attention, j'y vis les quadrupèdes de la terre, les bêtes sauvages, les reptiles et les oiseaux du ciel.

7 Puis j'entendis une voix qui me dit: Pierre, lève-toi; tue, et mange.

8 Et je répondis: Non, Seigneur; car jamais rien d'impur ni de souillé n'entra dans ma bouche.