Acts 10:12

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12.If any man ask how he could see a great multitude of living creatures at once, the question is easily answered. For Luke saith, _All manner, _because there were there divers kinds mixed one with another. Therefore he beginneth not at the first kind, that he may prosecute the number unto the last. Again, we must not measure this seeing according to the manner of men, because the trance gave Peter other eyes. But before we go any farther we must know the end of the vision. Some dispute more subtilely about the same than the place requireth, in my judgment. Therefore, I think that it is generally showed to Peter that the difference which God had made in times past is now taken away. And as he had put difference between living creatures, so, having chosen to himself one people, he counted all nations unclean and profane. Now the difference between living creatures being taken away, he tea...

9-18 The prejudices of Peter against the Gentiles, would have prevented his going to Cornelius, unless the Lord had prepared him for this service. To tell a Jew that God had directed those animals to be reckoned clean which were hitherto deemed unclean, was in effect saying, that the law of Moses was done away. Peter was soon made to know the meaning of it. God knows what services are before us, and how to prepare us; and we know the meaning of what he has taught us, when we find what occasion we have to make use of it....

Verse Acts 10:12. _ALL MANNER OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS_, c.] Every species of _quadrupeds_, whether _wild_ or _domestic_ all _reptiles_, and all _fowls_. Consequently, both the _clean_ and _unclean_ were present in this visionary representation: those that the Jewish law allowed to be sacrificed to God, or proper for food; as well as those which that law had prohibited in both cases: such as the _beasts_ that do not chew the _cud; fish_ which have _no scales;_ _fowls_ of prey and such others as are specified in Leviticus 11:1, c., where see the notes....

WHEREIN ... - This particular vision was suggested by Peter’s hunger, Acts 10:10. It was designed, however, to teach him an important lesson in regard to the introduction of all nations to the gospel. Its descending from heaven may have been an intimation that that religion which was about to abolish the distinction between the Jews and other nations was of divine origin. See Revelation 21:2....

EXPOSITION ACTS 10:1 Now _there was _(two last words in italics) for _there was _(in roman), A.V. and T.R.; _Cornelius by name _for _called Cornelius, _A.V. A glance at the map will show that Caesarea (see note to Acts 9:30) was but a short distance, some thirty miles, from Joppa. It was doubtless with a view to Peter's momentous errand to Caesarea that Luke recorded his previous visit to Lydda and his residence at Joppa, consequent upon the restoring of Dorcas to life: the _origines _of Gentile Christianity being the prime object of the Acts (see Introduction to the Acts). THE ITALIAN BAND; or, _cohort _(σπείρα). The σπείρα, or cohort, was used in two _senses. _When spoken of strictly Roman troops, it meant the ten

WHEREIN WERE ALL MANNER OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS OF THE EARTH,.... Not as if they were painted upon it, and these were only pictures and representations of them made on the linen sheet; but as if they really add actually were upon it alive; since Peter is afterwards called upon to kill and eat: and these design four-footed beasts of every kind, that are tame, as distinct from the wild ones, after mentioned, as horses, camels, oxen, sheep, hogs, dogs, c. AND WILD BEASTS lions, tigers, panthers, bears, c. This clause is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions: AND CREEPING THINGS the above copy and versions here add, "of the earth", which they omit in the first clause; these intend serpents, snakes, worms, c: AND FOWLS OF THE AIR birds of all sorts: now the whole of this signifies, that the church of Christ, under the Gospel dispensation, consists of...

ACTS 10:12 tetra,poda kai. e`rpeta. th/j gh/j {B} Copyists recollecting the similar but fuller account in Acts 11:6 produced a variety of expanded readings; thus, the usual expression $kai.% ta. qhri,a was introduced before or after ta. e`rpeta,, or after th/j gh/j. The reading that best explains the origin of the others is also well attested (î74 a A B 81 326 630 itgig vg syrp _al_)....

CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Cornelius of Caesarea and his Preparation (Acts 10:1)._ 2. The Trance-vision of Peter (Acts 10:9). 3. Peter with Cornelius at Caesarea (Acts 10:17). 4. Peter Preaching to the Gentiles (Acts 10:34). 5. The Interrupted Message (Acts 10:44). The ending of the preceding chapter tells us that Peter tarried in Joppa in the house of Simon the tanner. Was he breaking with his Jewish law and customs? Tanning as a trade was considered unclean by the Jews. In...

ACTS 10:9. THE HOUSETOP TO PRAY: _ cf._ 2 Kings 23:12; Jeremiah 19:13; Daniel 6:10. SIXTH HOUR: an hour of prayer (_cf. Acts 2:15_). No food was ordinarily eaten by the Jews before midday. Acts 10:10. Peter is in a house where there are people to prepare his meal. A TRANCE: _cf._ Genesis 15:12;...