τοῦ δὲ Πέτρου διενθυμουμένου περὶ τοῦ ὁράματος, now while Peter pondered over the vision. He was turning over his difficulty in his mind, and asking what God would have him learn by this lesson about the abolition of differences in meats. And while he was thus pondering the explanation came.

εἶπεν τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτῷ, the Spirit said to him. Thus the arrival of the messengers was, by an inward admonition of the Spirit, connected with the vision which he had just seen.

τρεῖς, i.e. the two servants and the soldier whom Cornelius had sent (see Acts 10:7).

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