Acts 10:12

“Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, etc.] Not as if they were painted upon it, and these were only pictures and representations of them made on the linen sheet; but as if they really add actually were upon it alive; since Peter is afterwards called upon to kill and eat: and these design four-footed beasts of every kind, that are tame, as distinct from the wild ones, after mentioned, as horses, camels, oxen, sheep, hogs, dogs, etc. and wild beasts; lions, tigers, panthers, bears, etc. This clause is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions: and creeping things; the above copy and versions here add, “of the earth”, which they omit…”

“all manner of four-footed beasts, &c.--that is, the clean and the unclean (ceremonially) all mixed together.”

“Wherein ... - This particular vision was suggested by Peter’s hunger, Acts 10:10. It was designed, however, to teach him an important lesson in regard to the introduction of all nations to the gospel. Its descending from heaven may have been an intimation that that religion which was about to abolish the distinction between the Jews and other nations was of divine origin. See Revelation 21:2. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Gen 7:8, Gen 7:9; Isa 11:6-9, Isa 65:25; Joh 7:37; Co1 6:9-11 Acts 10:13”