I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
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I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’
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And I herde a voyce sayinge vnto me: aryse Peter sley and eate.
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Also I heard a voyce, saying vnto me, Arise, Peter: slay and eate.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He might now use them without any distinction indifferently.
He might now use them without any distinction indifferently.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I heard a voice saying unto me,.... As…
And I heard a voice saying unto me,.... As he apprehended in his mind; and this voice he heard in the same sense and manner, as the Apostle Paul heard when in a trance, Act 22:17.
arise, Peter, slay and eat; that is, get up and slay some of these creatures upon the sheet, and dress them and eat them.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Also a voice for a voice, A.V. and T.R.;…
Also a voice for a voice, A.V. and T.R.; rise for arise, A.V.; kilt for day, A.V.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes one verse 4
See notes one verse 4
J. W. McGarvey (with Philip Y. Pendleton), Commentaries on the New Testament (The Fourfold Gospel, 1914; Acts; and the epistles) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I heard a voice
I heard a voice
The person speaking is not specified. The "voice" was probably God, although it could possibly have been an angel from God. See how you translated "a voice" in Acts 10:13. (See: Synecdoche)
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Not so
"I will not do that." See how you translated this in Acts 10:14.
nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth
Apparently the animals in the sheet were animals which the Jewish law in the Old Testament forbade the Jews to eat. This can be said in a positive way. AT: "I have eaten only meat from holy and clean animals" (See: Metonymy and Double Negatives)
unclean
In the Old Testament Jewish law, a person became ritually "unclean" in various ways, such as eating certain forbidden animals.
What God has declared clean, do not call unclean
This refers to the animals in the sheet. (See: Metonymy)
This happened three times
It is not likely that everything was repeated three times. This probably means that "What God has cleansed, do not call it defiled" was repeated three times. However, it may be best to simply say "This happened three times" instead of trying to explain in detail. See how you translated "This happened three times" in Acts 10:16.
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Peter
holy
God
heaven
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