ACTS 10:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”
The voice spoke to him a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'—the repetition (repeated vision, Acts 10:9-16 happens three times, 10:16) emphasizes completeness and finality; three-fold repetition in Scripture signals eschatological finality. The verb 'made clean' (katharizō) redefines Israel's entire purity system: God's creative act and divine declaration supersede human categories. The shift is not from Law to lawlessness but from letter to Spirit.
Church Fathers on Acts 10:15
kill and eat. Acts 10:13 Probably he was on his knees when he saw the vision. — To me it seems that this also denotes the Gospel (or, the Preaching). That the thing taking place was of God (the circumstances made evident, namely), both that he sees it (descending) from above, and that he is in a trance; and, that the voice comes from thence, and the thrice confessing that the creatures there were unclean, and its coming from thence, and being drawn back there (all this), is a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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