Acts 10:15

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܬ݂ܽܘܒ݂ ܕ݁ܬ݂ܰܪܬ݁ܶܝܢ ܙܰܒ݂ܢܺܝܢ ܩܳܠܳܐ ܗܘܳܐ ܠܘܳܬ݂ܶܗ ܐܰܝܠܶܝܢ ܕ݁ܰܐܠܳܗܳܐ ܕ݁ܰܟ݁ܺܝ ܐܰܢ݈ܬ݁ ܠܳܐ ܬ݁ܣܰܝܶܒ݂ ܀

Bible Verse Review
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What: Acts 10:28, Acts 11:9, Acts 15:9, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, Matthew 15:11, Revelation 14:14-17, Revelation 14:20, 1 Corinthians 10:25, Galatians 2:12, Galatians 2:13, 1 Timothy 4:3-5, Titus 1:15, Hebrews 9:9, Hebrews 9:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:19 - General Joshua 22:19 - unclean Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Mark 7:2 - defiled Luke 11:41 - all Romans 14:14 - unclean Romans 14:20 - All

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the voice spake unto him again the second time,.... The following words,

what God hath cleansed; that is, hath pronounced clean and lawful to be used, as he now had all sorts of food, Matthew 15:11.

[that] call not thou common; or pronounce it to be unholy or unclean, and unlawful to be used: and the same holds good of men, as well as things; for as hereby the Lord instructed Peter, that there was nothing of itself common, or unclean, and unfit for use; so that no man, not any Gentile, Barbarian, Scythian, or be he who he would, was common or unclean, and his company to be avoided as such. Distinctions both of men and meats were now to be laid aside; and the Jews themselves own, that what is now unclean, will be clean in the time to come, or the times of the Messiah; they say f,

"every beast which is unclean in this world, the holy blessed God מטהר אותה, cleanses it, in the time to come, (the times of the Messiah,) as they were at first clean to the sons of Noah Genesis 9:3, wherefore, as the herb was clean to all, and as the beasts were clean to the sons of Noah; so also in the time to come he will loose what he has bound, or forbidden.''

And particularly they observe, that a swine is call הזיר from הזר, "to return", because the Lord will return it unto Israel. g

f R. Moses Haddarsan in Galatin. l. 11. c. 12. & Bereshit Rabba in Pugio Fidei, c. 12. sect. 1. g Abarbinel Rosh Amana, c. 12. fol. 18. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What God hath cleansed - What God has pronounced or declared pure. If God has commanded you to do a thing, it is not impure or wrong. Perhaps Peter would suppose that the design of this vision was to instruct him that the distinction between clean and unclean food, as recognized by the Jews, was about to be abolished, Acts 10:17. But the result showed that it had a higher and more important design. It was to show him that they who had been esteemed by the Jews as unclean or profane - the entire Gentile world - might now be admitted to similar privileges with the Jews. That barrier was robe broken down, and the whole world was to be admitted to the same fellowship and privileges in the gospel. See Ephesians 2:14; Galatians 3:28. It was also true that the ceremonial laws of the Jews in regard to clean and unclean beasts was to pass away, though this was not directly taught in this vision. But when once the barrier was removed that separated the Jews and Gentiles, all the laws which were founded on such a distinction, and which were framed to keep up such a distinction, passed away of course. The ceremonial laws of the Jews were designed solely to keep up the distinction between them and other nations. When the distinction was abolished; when other nations were to be admitted to the same privileges, the laws which were made to keep up such a difference received their death-blow, and expired of course. For it is a maxim of all law, that when the reason why a law was made ceases to exist, the law becomes obsolete. Yet it was not easy to convince the Jews that their laws ceased to be binding. This point the apostles labored to establish; and from this point arose most of the difficulties between the Jewish and Gentile converts to Christianity. See Acts 15:0; and Rom. 14–15:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 10:15. What God hath cleansed — God, who made at first the distinction between Jews and Gentiles, has a right to remove it, whenever and by whatever means he pleases: he, therefore, who made the distinction, for wise purposes, between the clean and the unclean, now pronounces all to be clean. He had authority to do the first; he has authority to do the last. God has purposed that the Gentiles shall have the Gospel preached to them: what he therefore has cleansed, "that call not thou common."