According to Acts, chapter 10, St. Peter has a vision of a vessel (Greek: ?????? , skeuos ; â € Å"suatu a certain vessel descending on it, as it is a large sheets knitting in the four corners-full of beasts descended from heaven (Acts 10:11). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat it, but because the vessel (or sheet, ?????, the others?) Contained unclean animals, Peter refused. The order was repeated twice again, along with a voice saying, "What God has made clean, it is not common" (verse 15) and then the ship was brought back to heaven (verse 16).
At this point in the narrative, the messenger sent from Cornelius, the Centurion arrived and urged Peter to go with them. He did so, and cited the vision as he spoke to Cornelius, saying, "God has told me that I should not call ordinary people or unclean" (Acts 10:28). Peter connects the vision again in Acts 11: 4-9.
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Interpretation
Simon J. Kistemaker states that the lesson that God taught Peter in this vision is that "God has removed the obstacle he once built to separate his people from the surrounding nations." Kistemaker argues that it means Peter must accept Gentile believers as full members of the Christian Church, but also that God has made all animals clean, so "Peter with his fellow Jewish Christians can ignore the food laws that have been observed since that time.. "Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Seminary, wrote:
As shown in the Acts of the Apostles, Christians are not required to follow this code of holiness. This is explained in Peter's vision in Acts 10:15. Peter was told, 'What God has cleansed, do not call it ordinary.' In other words, there is no kosher code for Christians. Christians do not care about eating halal food and avoiding others. Part of the law is no longer binding, and Christians can enjoy shrimp and pig without injury of conscience.
Luke Timothy Johnson and Daniel J. Harrington write that this episode marks a radical change in "the identity of Peter as a member of God's people," but also that "the implication is that all things created by God are cleansed by them, and not affected by human discrimination."
On the other hand, the United Church of God (a group that follows the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong) calls this a "misunderstood passage of the Bible," arguing that Peter's statement in verse 28 shows that divine revelation reflects only teaching about people, about food. UCG argues that Peter realizes "the confusing vision can not undo God's command." The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a similar view of this passage.
The rejection of the three Peter described in Acts 10:16 echoes the rejection of Peter described in the Synoptic Gospels.
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Artistic depictions
Peter's vision is rarely displayed in art, but has been illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Rembrandt and variants by his student van Hoogstraten. Rembrandt may react to the subject painting by Domenico Fetti who was later in Amsterdam, and now in Vienna. It also appears on the "Altar of St. Peter" in the Cathedral of Seville, which is associated with Francisco de ZurbarÃÆ'¡n.
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