ACTS 10:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.”
It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds of the air.—the catalog of animals is theologically charged: the mixture violates Jewish dietary law distinctions (Leviticus 11). Four-footed animals (quadrupeds, presumably both clean and unclean), reptiles (explicitly forbidden in Lev 11:41-42), and birds—the enumeration suggests totality and deliberate mixing of categories. Everything taboo is present.
Church Fathers on Acts 10:12
And saw heaven opened, and, knit at the four corners, a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet, and let down to the earth: wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, What God has…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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