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Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:13

13. Kill Literally sacrifice. For the clean Jew to kill the clean animal for his own eating was in a manner to sacrifice him. Rather, however, the word symbolizes that the unclean Gentile may, through the great sacrifice of the pure Lamb of God, present himself a living sacrifice to Jehovah. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:14

14. Unclean Even under the patriarchal dispensation the distinction of animals into clean and unclean was religiously established. (Genesis 7:2.) Man, indeed, by nature makes a distinction. Some animals are so repugnant to human tastes and health that we are disgusted at the very thought of eating them. Early in the divine education of man God so used this natural distinction which he had made, as the basis of a moral discrimination, as to impress the minds of fallen men with the difference... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:15

15. Call not thou common In the expressive Greek the word for call common is a verb: What God has cleansed common thou not. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:16

16. Done thrice Greek, επι τρεις , up to thrice. The divine number implying that the vision was from God. (See on the sacred numbers, vol. ii, p. 77.) We understand that either there were three separate visions, or that the sheet was thrice let down in continuance of the same vision and withdrawn completely into heaven at the close. Received up again As if all men might be good enough for heaven. For we do not understand the sheet to represent the Church, into which none but the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:17

17. What… should mean The threefold repetition convinced him that it had a meaning; it did not tell him what meaning. Did it mean simply what it said, namely, that all animals were now clean, the old distinction being abolished, so that Peter might eat pork, or oysters, or what he pleased? Or was this meaning pregnant with an inner meaning, an idea within an idea; what theologians have called, perhaps not happily, “a double sense?” The event shows that there was this interior lesson... read more

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