3459 - All Manner of Four-Footed Beasts. Acts 10:12 by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 22.

3459 — All Manner of Four-Footed Beasts. Acts 10:12

By Editor

Please explain Acts 10:12. Were there any unclean beasts then? C. Z.

Surely, there must have been unclean beasts; for all manner of beasts must include both classes. Peter would have eaten, but that was not the object of the vision. That great sheet represented the world for which Christ died. Peter only saw the Jewish race as accepted with God; all others were unclean, and God gave Peter that vision, to show him that he "should not call any man common or unclean." Acts 10:28. All were alike the purchase of Christ's blood. The lesson did not demand that Peter should eat, in vision or elsewhere. It was not a matter of dietary that God was giving.

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