Acts 10:28

28. Unlawful There was nothing in the Mosaic law rendering it in itself unlawful to keep company with one of another nation. Grotius remarks that the word unlawful here corresponds to the rabbinical אסור , signifying the unlawful, not by the law of Moses, but by the decree of the doctors, which was held equal in rank.

God hath showed me First, by the symbolical sheet; second, by his Spirit bidding me meet your messengers; and, third, by the fact that your angel corresponds with my vision. For these two last facts fully answer Peter’s doubt, Acts 10:17. And the whole will receive the closing and conclusive confirmation of Acts 10:44.

Any man common For though the sheet included only animals, he knew that the truth symbolized embraced man. And as the symbol forbade calling any man common, so the sheet symbolically includes all men, and not the Church alone.