Acts 10:14

Verse 14. I have never eaten, etc. In the Old Testament, God had made a distinction between clean and unclean animals. See Le 11:2-27; De 14:3-20. This law remained in the Scriptures, and Peter pleaded that he had never violated it, implying that he could not now violate it; as it was a law of God, and as it was unrepealed, he did not dare to act in a different manner from what it required. Between that law, and the command which he now received in the vision, there was an apparent variation; and Peter naturally referred to the well-known and admitted written law. One design of the vision was to show him that that law was now to pass away. That is common.