Acts 11:9

9 respondit autem vox secundo de caelo quae Deus mundavit tu ne commune dixeris

Acts 11:9 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:9

But the voice answered me again from heaven
From whence the former voice came, and was the voice of the Lord, or of an angel of the Lord, and which answered him again, or

a second time;
not that it said to him a second time kill and eat, but what follows;

what God hath cleansed, that call not thou common;
that is, had declared to be clean and fit for use, and did not defile, and could not defile the man into whose mouth it entered, and therefore ought not to be pronounced unclean, and of a defiling nature; this Jesus Christ did, who is God over all blessed for ever, and by whose death an end was put to the ceremonial law, and the distinctions of meats by it; ( Matthew 15:11 ) ( Romans 14:14 ) .

Acts 11:9 In-Context

7 audivi autem et vocem dicentem mihi surgens Petre occide et manduca
8 dixi autem nequaquam Domine quia commune aut inmundum numquam introivit in os meum
9 respondit autem vox secundo de caelo quae Deus mundavit tu ne commune dixeris
10 hoc autem factum est per ter et recepta sunt rursum omnia in caelum
11 et ecce confestim tres viri adstiterunt in domo in qua eram missi a Caesarea ad me
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