And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
God declared all meats clean once the law was abrogated; if any mortal now forbids them, he steals the judgment seat of God Himself. The Pope and his heirs do this with sacrilegious pride, binding consciences over nothing. Trust the heavenly oracle, not man's prohibitions.
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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
God has pronounced clean what He made lawful to use. Call nothing common that He has cleansed, neither foods nor men. Jews and Gentiles, Barbarian and Scythian alike: all distinctions fall away now, and what God binds and looses in this age, He looses.
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