“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.
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