Acts 10:13 (WEB)
A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”
Fathers and councils · 10
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.1Book II
“And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call thou not common.”” — editor's note: Cf. Acts x. 9–15.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And being on the housetop in a trance, he saw heaven opened, and by means of the vessel let down as it were a sheet full of beasts of every shape and sort, he learnt plainly to call no man common or unclean, though he should be of the Greeks.” — editor's note: Acts x. 11–16.
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Gregory the Great
“But as to your saying that I ought not to have written, “That you should plough with bubaliin the Lord’s field,” seeing that when in the sheet shewn to the blessed Peter both bubali and all wild beasts were presented to view; thou knowest thyself that it is subjoined, Slay and eat (Acts x. 13).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Like to which with the contrary meaning is that which was said to Peter, “Kill and eat;” that he should convert the Gentiles to his own faith and good conversation.” — editor's note: Acts x. 13.
Read the whole comment“As it was said to Peter, “Kill and eat;” do thou kill in them what they are, make them what thou art.” — editor's note: Acts x. 13.
Read the whole comment“With this sword were slain those whereof it was said to Peter, “Slay, and eat.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 13.
Read the whole comment“To Peter it was said, “Kill and eat:” not, Swallow quick.” — editor's note: Acts x. 13.
Read the whole comment“And hence the vessel which bare all the emblematic animals, which was exhibited to Peter, when he was told, “Kill and eat,” that it might be shown that the Gentiles should believe and enter into the body of the Church, just as what we eat entereth into our body, and which was let…” — editor's note: Acts x. 13.
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Jerome
“For through the mercy of God you have already put your hand to the plough; you have already gone up upon the housetop like the apostle Peter.” — editor's note: Acts x. 3–16.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And the voice came again to him the second time, What God hath cleansed, call not thou common.”” — editor's note: Acts x. 10–15.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Against Celsus II.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.1.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.6.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.6.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.6.