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Act 10:12. Πάντα τὰ τετράποδα καὶ τὰ ἑρπετὰ τῆς γῆς, all four-footed animals and creeping things of the earth) Under the name all four-footed animals Luke comprises wild beasts also, which however recent transcribers have inserted here, from ch. Act 11:6.[60] By these symbols not only was it signified, that Peter is allowed to eat all kinds of food (of every nation), but that the Gentile nations themselves, who had been heretofore designated as unclean animals, are now clean: Act 10:28.
[60] For this reason the reading καὶ τὰ θηρία, which the larger Ed. thought was not to be omitted, is deemed an inferior reading by Ed. 2, and is omitted also in the Germ. Vers.-E. B.
Ee support τὰ θηρία after τῆς γῆς. Orig. 1,249a has it before τῆς γῆς. Rec. Text, with later. Syr., reads τὰ θηρία before καὶ τὰ ἕρπετα. But ABC corrected, Vulg. Orig. 1,386b, 388b, omit τὰ θηρία.-E. and T.