Acts 10:12 - Exposition

Beasts and creeping things of the earth for beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, A.V. and T.R.; heaven for air, A.V. The distinction between clean and unclean was very sharply drawn in the Levitical Law ( Leviticus 11:1-47 .; see especially Leviticus 11:41-44 and Leviticus 20:25 ; Deuteronomy 14:3-20 ). Peter's astonishment must, therefore, have been exceeding great at the command to slay and eat. And so his answer in Acts 10:14 shows. And yet our Lord had taught him the same truth.