“But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.”
'I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'—Peter's response shows his internalized purity-consciousness; his entire life of observance is invoked. The claim 'never... entered my mouth' (oydepote... eisēlthen eis to stoma mou) asserts lifelong fidelity to kashrut. His hesitation is not disobedience but the resistance of the righteous to apparent violation.
Church Fathers on Acts 11:8
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth. Acts 11:8 Do you mark? I did my part, says he: I said, that I have never eaten anything common or unclean: with reference to this that they said, You went in, and ate with them. But this he does not say to Cornelius: for there was no need to mention it to him. But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not thou common. And this was done three…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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