Ver. 14. Μηδαμῶς: absit (LXX for
moon), 1 Sam. xx. 2, xxii. 15 (Weiss). ---Κύριε: Weiss refers to i. 24, and takes
it as meaning Jehovah, but others refer the expression here to Christ; the next
verse shows us that there was still the same element of self-will in the Apostle which had misled the Peter of the Gospels. --οὐδέποτε. . . wav: the words of strong negation, characteristic of the vehement and impulsive Peter — Hebraistic, cf. Exod. xx. 10, Judg. xiii. 4, and in N.T., Matt. xxiv. 22, Luke i. 37, Rom. iii. 12, 1 Cor. 1. 29; Simcox, Language of the N. T., pp. 72, 73, and Blass, Gram., Ρ. 174.— κοινὸν = βέβηλος; 1 Macc. i. 62, opposed to ἅγιος, Lev. x. 10, cf. Ezek. xxii. 26, often used in N.T. for unclean, cf. Mark vii, 2.---ἀκάθαρτος, Lev. xx. 25, of clean and unclean animals; κοινός in 1 Macc. above is used, as ver. 63 shows, for defilement from meats.
Ver. 15. The last word of ver. 14 carries us back to the thought of the teaching of his Master, which St. Peter had evidently not yet realised, cf. Mark vii. το. Mark alone draws the inference, ‘‘ this He said, making all meats clean,” which, compared with this verse, makes another link of interest between St. Mark and St. Peter.—ék δευτ. . . . ἐπὶ τρίς (only here and in xi. 10, in classics εἰς τρίς), toemphasise the command, cf. Gen. xli. 32, ‘*ad confirmationem valuit” Οαἱνίη.---- ἐκαθάρισε, declarative: ‘de coelo enim nil nisi purum demittitur ” Bengel. — κοίνου: ‘‘make not thou common,” R.V., ‘‘as though man by his harsh verdict actually created unclean-