Acts 11:9. The voice answered me again from heaven. The word ‘answered' is more definite and lively than that which we find in the correlative passage; and the phrase ‘from heaven' is an addition, which would have its force for St. Peter's present hearers. Nor must we forget the bearing of all this on future times. Stier remarks: ‘The teaching of the voice from heaven through Peter's lips was affecting the whole Church.'

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