Acts - 11:9



9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

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Explanation and meaning of Acts 11:9.

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But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common.
"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "'What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'
But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
Then the voice responded a second time from heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you shall not call common.'
Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. 'What God has pronounced clean', it said, 'you must not call defiled.'

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Historical Commentaries

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But the voice answered me again from heaven,.... From whence the former voice came, and was the voice of the Lord, or of an angel of the Lord, and which answered him again, or
a second time; not that it said to him a second time kill and eat, but what follows;
what God hath cleansed, that call not thou common; that is, had declared to be clean and fit for use, and did not defile, and could not defile the man into whose mouth it entered, and therefore ought not to be pronounced unclean, and of a defiling nature; this Jesus Christ did, who is God over all blessed for ever, and by whose death an end was put to the ceremonial law, and the distinctions of meats by it; Matthew 15:11.

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