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He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn`t call any man unholy or unclean.
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A Custom, Not a Command
Commentators clarify that when Peter says it's "unlawful" for a Jew to associate with a Gentile, he's referring to a powerful social custom and rabbinic tradition, not a direct command from the Law of Moses. These traditions, while rooted in a desire to avoid idolatry, had created a strict wall of separation that God was now tearing down.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
It is an unlawful thing. This was not explicitly commanded by Moses, but it seemed to be implied in his institutions and was, in any case,…
How that it is an unlawful thing (ως αθεμιτον εστιν). The conjunction ως is sometimes equivalent to οτ (that). The old form of αθε…
19th Century
Anglican
Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing.—Peter speaks from the standpoint of traditional Pharisaism rather than from tha…
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In Cornelius’s living quarters Peter found a large group waiting to hear what he had to say. Perhaps self-consciously, he began by saying that Jewi…
16th Century
Protestant
You know that it is not lawful. This seems to be no friendly preface, and one that may rather harden than win their hearts, when they hear…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said to them The whole company that were met together, who were chiefly, if not altogether Gentiles:
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