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An unlawful thing (ἀθέμιτον)
The word is peculiar to Peter, being used only here and 1Pe 4:3. See note there. It emphasizes the violation of established order, being from the same root as τίθημι, to lay down or establish. The Jews professed to ground this prohibition on the law of Moses; but there is no direct command in the Mosaic law forbidding Jews to associate with those of other nations. But Peter's statement is general, referring to the general practice of the Jews to separate themselves in common life from uncircumcised persons. Juvenal says that the Jews were taught by Moses “not to show the way except to one who practises the same rites, and to guide the circumcised alone to the well which they seek” (Sat., xiv., 104, 105). Tacitus also says of the Jews that “among themselves they are inflexibly faithful, and ready with charitable aid, but hate all others as enemies. They keep separate from all strangers in eating, sleeping, and matrimonial connections” (“Histories,” v., 5).
Of another nation (ἀλλοφύλῳ)
Only here in New Testament. Used of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 13:3-5 (Sept.).
Me
Emphatic, by contrast with ye. “Ye know,” etc., “but God hath showed me.”