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
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