descended to the earth, and in it were all four-footed beasts and creeping things of the earth and fowls of the heaven ; and there came to me a voice saying, Simon, rise, slay and eat. And I said, Be it far from me, Lord, to eat anything that is impure, (S. + for I have never eaten anything that is impure and polluted). And another voice came to me the second time, saying, What God hath cleansed, call not thou common. But this was done three times, and it was lifted up from me into heaven. Then I considered and knew the word of the Lord, that as He said, Be glad1, ye Gentiles, Deut. with the people, (S. 4- and that in every place He hath spoken about the xxxli' *3 calling of the Gentiles). And I rose and went ; and when I entered his house, I began to speak the Word of the Lord ; the Holy Ghost Cf. Acts x.