Acts 10:14

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܫܶܡܥܽܘܢ ܐܶܡܰܪ ܚܳܣ ܡܳܪܝ ܕ݁ܡܶܡܬ݂ܽܘܡ ܠܳܐ ܐܶܟ݂ܠܶܬ݂ ܟ݁ܽܠ ܕ݁ܰܡܣܰܝܰܒ݂ ܘܰܛܡܰܐ ܀

Bible Verse Review
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Not: Genesis 19:18, Exodus 10:11, Matthew 16:22, Matthew 25:9, Luke 1:60

for: Leviticus 11:1-17, Leviticus 20:25, Deuteronomy 14:1-29, Ezekiel 4:14, Ezekiel 44:31

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:18 - Not so Exodus 22:31 - neither Leviticus 11:2 - General Joshua 22:19 - unclean Judges 13:4 - eat not Psalms 141:4 - and let me Isaiah 52:11 - touch Daniel 1:8 - defile Hosea 9:3 - but Matthew 15:11 - that which goeth Matthew 16:7 - It is Mark 7:2 - defiled Mark 7:15 - nothing Romans 14:14 - unclean Hebrews 13:9 - not with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Peter said, not so, Lord,.... God forbid I should do this, so contrary to the law of God, and to my own practice, throughout the whole course of my life:

for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean; in a ceremonial sense, which was in common use with Gentiles, but unclean by the law of Moses: this shows that Peter as yet closely adhered to the ceremonial law, nor did he know that it was abolished by Christ; and notwithstanding the commission given to him and the rest of the apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature, and the extraordinary gifts of speaking with divers tongues for that purpose, bestowed on them at the day of Pentecost; yet he and they remained greatly strangers to the calling of the Gentiles, and the admitting of them to a civil and religious conversation with them; the knowledge of every truth was not at once communicated to them, but gradually, as it pressed the Lord to enlighten their minds.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have never eaten ... - In the Old Testament God had made a distinction between clean and unclean animals. See Leviticus 11:2-27; Deuteronomy 14:3-20. This law remained in the Scriptures, and Peter pled that he had never violated it, implying that he could not now violate it, as it was a law of God, and that, as it was unrepealed, he did not dare to act in a different manner from what it required. Between that law and the command which he now received in the vision there was an apparent variation, and Peter naturally referred to the well known and admitted written Law. One design of the vision was to show him that that Law was now to pass away.

That is common - This word properly denotes “what pertains to all,” but among the Jews, who were bound by special laws, and who were prohibited from many things that were freely indulged in by other nations, the word “common” came to be opposed to the word “sacred,” and to denote what was in common use among the pagans, hence, that which was “profane,” or “polluted.” Here it means the same as “profane,” or “forbidden.”

Unclean - Ceremonially unclean; that is, what is forbidden by the ceremonial law of Moses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 10:14. Common or unclean. — By common, κοινον, whatever was in general use among the Gentiles is to be understood; by ακαθαρτον, unclean, every thing that was forbidden by the Mosaic law. However, the one word may be considered as explanatory of the other. The rabbins themselves, and many of the primitive fathers, believed that by the unclean animals forbidden by the law the Gentiles were meant.