15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
15 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."
15 The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."
15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
15 But the voice spoke again: "Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 10:15
Commentary on Acts 10:9-18
(Read Acts 10:9-18)
The prejudices of Peter against the Gentiles, would have prevented his going to Cornelius, unless the Lord had prepared him for this service. To tell a Jew that God had directed those animals to be reckoned clean which were hitherto deemed unclean, was in effect saying, that the law of Moses was done away. Peter was soon made to know the meaning of it. God knows what services are before us, and how to prepare us; and we know the meaning of what he has taught us, when we find what occasion we have to make use of it.