Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:12
12. All manner of Greek, all, by which we are not to understand all that ever existed, nor every kind or manner; but all without any discrimination of clean or unclean, a sufficient universality for the purpose in hand. Wild beasts These words are rejected by the best authorities. Creeping things Insects, reptiles, testacea, and even, according to Jewish classification, fishes. For why Lechler should insist that the all means a universality because this is a trance, and so able to... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:1-48
PART SECOND. THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION FROM JEWS TO GENTILES, Acts 8:5 to Acts 12:25. Through this Second Part of his history Luke traces in perfectly regular progress the successive steps by which Christianity emerges from her Jewish trammels into a free and universal Church. The Samaritans are first evangelized, and the eunuch is the first apostle to Africa. The Gentile apostle is next converted and put in preparation for his work. Peter, emerging from Jerusalem, is taught by the case of... read more