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15. καὶ φωνὴ πάλιν κ.τ.λ., and a voice came again the second time. As there is no verb in the sentence, ἐγένετο, as in 13, must be supplied. ἐκ δευτέρου defines precisely what was not definite with πάλιν only.
ἃ ὁ θεὸς ἐκαθάρισεν σὺ μὴ κοίνου, what God hath cleansed that make not thou common. The heaven-sent voice revokes what had been enjoined from heaven at the giving of the Law. The power which made the restriction can remove it. That it would be removed Christ had intimated (Mat 15:11), ‘Not that which goeth into the month defileth a man.’ The old dispensation is now to give place to the new, and Peter is taught by the vision that men are not to make such distinctions and separations for themselves. ‘For meat destroy not the work of God’ (Rom 14:20). That the Christian religion was meant to abrogate these ceremonial regulations may be gathered also from Christ’s language (Mar 7:18-19) about that which goeth into a man not defiling him, which He is expressly stated to have spoken, καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα, ‘making (or declaring) all meats pure.’