Acts 10:14

"But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for. have never eaten anything that is common and unclean"Not so, Lord" "By no means" (NASV). "Peter is always. man quick to act and quick to speak. Although he was in. trance, he still had his sense of right and wrong about him" (Reese p. 386). "I have never eaten" The animals found in the above sheet like object included unclean animals. "Evidently. mixture of clean and unclean creatures calculated to disgust any orthodox Jew" (Stott p. 187). "Peter had been reared from childhood to make the distinction between clean and unclean food and this new proposal even from the Lord runs against all his previous training" (Robertson p. 137). For laws concerning what were clean and unclean animals see Leviticus chapter 11 and Deuteronomy 14:1. "It is rather. striking testimony to Peter's religious character as. Jew before his call to the apostolate, that, poor Galilean fisherman as he was, unlearned and ignorant, he had yet always conscientiously obeyed the Law of Moses in regard to things clean and unclean" (P.P. Comm. p. 333). This example also illustrates that an ordinary person can observe God's commandments, even the commandments that were given in the Old Testament.