And the[a] voice spake unto him again the second time coming from heaven as the first voice had come. There is no verb in the original, and it would perhaps be better to supply "came" rather than "spake."

What God hath cleansed, that call[make] not thou common The heaven-sent voice revokes what had been enjoined from heaven at the giving of the Law. The power which made the restriction can remove it. That it would be removed Christ had intimated (Matthew 15:11), "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man." The old dispensation is now to give place to the new, and Peter is taught by the vision that men are not to make such distinctions and separations for themselves. "For meat destroy not the work of God" (Romans 14:20).

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