Acts 11:7

7 And I heard also a voice that said to me, Peter, rise thou, and slay, and eat. [Forsooth I heard a voice saying to me, Peter, rise, slay, and eat.]

Acts 11:7 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 11:7

And I heard a voice saying unto me
As he apprehended in his mind; and this voice he heard in the same sense and manner, as the Apostle Paul heard when in a trance, ( Acts 22:17 Acts 22:18 ) ( 2 Corinthians 12:4 ) .

arise, Peter, slay and eat;
that is, get up and slay some of these creatures upon the sheet, and dress them and eat them.

Acts 11:7 In-Context

5 I was in the city of Joppa, and prayed, and I saw in ravishing of my mind a vision, that a vessel came down, as a great sheet with four cords, and was sent down from heaven; and it came [till] to me. [+I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in excess of my soul a vision, some vessel coming down, as a great sheet with four corners for to be sent down from heaven; and it came unto me.]

6 Into which I looking beheld, and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and beasts, and creeping beasts, and volatiles of heaven [and volatiles of the air].

7 And I heard also a voice that said to me, Peter, rise thou, and slay, and eat. [Forsooth I heard a voice saying to me, Peter, rise, slay, and eat.]

8 But I said, Nay, Lord; for common thing either unclean [or unclean] entered never into my mouth.

9 And the voice answered the second time from heaven, That thing that God hath cleansed, say thou not unclean [Those things that God hath cleansed, thou shalt not say unclean].