Catena Fidei

Acts 10:15 (WEB)
A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Fathers and councils · 11

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.
Read the whole comment

Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies III.12Book III
“But when Peter saw the vision, in which the voice from heaven said to him, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common,” this happened [to teach him] that the God who had, through the law, distinguished between clean and unclean, was He who had purified the Gentiles through the…” — editor's note: Acts x. 15.
Read the whole comment

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 18
“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.
Read the whole comment

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 52
“When He had set them free from the observance of meats, then to the Gentiles also He goes on to open a door, proceeding in due course; even as Peter, having been first directed to annul this law, is sent to Cornelius.” — editor's note: Acts x. 15, 20.
Read the whole comment
John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 78
“After these things, on the house, and by the sheet, when he heard a voice saying to him, “What God hath cleansed, call not thou common,”even though he knew not for the time what the saying could be, he is quiet, and strives not.” — editor's note: Acts x. 15.
Read the whole comment

JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Hence in the Acts of the Apostles we read, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” [Acts 10:15] Common then in this sense is that which is free to the rest of mankind, and as though not in part of God, is therefore called unclean.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment

Jerome, Letters Letter 35
“(Acts x. 15.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment
Jerome, Letters Letter 125
“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.
Read the whole comment

Tertullian, On Patience Chapter 8
“When, then, on being cursed, I smite (with my tongue,) how shall I be found to have followed the doctrine of the Lord, in which it has been delivered that “a man is defiled, not by the defilements of vessels, but of the things which are sent forth out of his mouth.”” — editor's note: Communicari—κοινοῦσθαι. See Mark vii. 15, “made common,” i.e. profane, unclean. Compare Acts x. 14, 15 in the Greek.
Read the whole comment

Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit II.10Book II
“Nor is it without a purpose that when He had said before, “What God hath cleansed call not thou common,” the Holy Spirit came upon the Gentiles to purify them, when it is manifest that the operation of the Spirit is a divine operation.” — editor's note: Acts x. 15.
Read the whole comment

Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor II.1Book II
“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.
Read the whole comment