In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.
12. If any man ask how he could see a great multitude of living creatures at once, the question is easily answered. For Luke saith, All manner, because there were there divers kinds mixed one with another. Therefore he beginneth not at the first kind, that he may prosecute the number unto the last.
Peter clung to Jewish prejudice against Gentiles, thinking association with them brought ceremonial pollution. Scripture had plainly spoken of the Gentiles entering the church, Christ Himself had ordered it, yet Peter could not see it until God broke his bigotry with a vision.
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Commenting on Acts 10:9-18
Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth,.... 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...