 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls...  Biblical natural science - Page 193by John Duns - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1838 - 288 pages
...descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth : 12. Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 1 3. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter ; kill, and eat. 14. But Peter said, Not so, .Lord;... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1838 - 246 pages
...inhumanity. As Peter, when in a vision, he beheld a sheet of vast dimensions let down from heaven, " wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air," was commanded not to call " what God cleansed, common or unclean;" so may we suppose ourselves commanded... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 pages
...its fulfilment when the apostle Peter saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air: in consequence of this vision he went and preached the gospel to the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius.... | |
 | 1838 - 1082 pages
...An analogous case is that of the animals shown to Peter in vision, let down in " a certain vessel," olence, foiols of the air, (Acts 10: 12.) Who will imagine that all the quadrupeds, reptiles, and birds on... | |
 | 1839 - 312 pages
...that we were included with those that Peter saw in the sheet knit at the four corners; and although all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of Ihe air, (Acts x,) were in it, yet not one of them ever got out, but were all received up into heaven... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1840 - 396 pages
...and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth ; wherein were all manner of...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter ; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord ; for I have... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1840 - 160 pages
...and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth : wherein were all manner of...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord ; -for I have... | |
 | 1840 - 644 pages
...descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth : 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.* 13 And there came a voice to him, Uise, Peter ; kill, aod eat. 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; n for... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...tied. The corners were collected, as would be natural in putting any thing into a great sheet VER. 12. Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 13. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter ; kill, and eat Wherein, &c. — This particular vision... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...corners, and let >» So the Church was to iochdt down to the earth : " wherein men of every nation, were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth,...beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter ; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord ; for I have... | |
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