Acts 10:1-23, Proverbs 17:7-8, Psalm 133:1-3

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

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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

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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either there were three separate visions, or that the sheet was thrice let down in continuance of the same vision and withdrawn completely into heaven at the close.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

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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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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:19

19. The Spirit said In Acts 10:13-14 there was a voice; but the change of the phraseology here seems to imply that, although there were words, there was no voice. Spirit spoke to spirit, silently yet significantly. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:20

20. Get thee down By the outer stairs. (See notes on Matthew 9:2; Matthew 26:68.) Doubting nothing On account of their being Gentiles. So Acts 11:12. I have sent them The double active, says Grotius: I have caused that they should be caused to come. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:22

22. They said The use of repetitions in this narrative is after the style of the most antique simplicity, found in the Old Testament and in the poems of Homer. But it indicates also that Luke (probably now at Jerusalem; see note on Acts 13:1) was most fully informed of the facts, and that he esteemed the whole narrative to be of the most impressive importance, being the first great divine assurance that the Gentile, unbound by Jewish shackles, should be admitted by holy baptism into the... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:23

23. Certain brethren Six in number, (Acts 11:12,) for the purpose doubtless of being witnesses to testify and defend, if Peter were arraigned for being too free with Gentiles. read more

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