7饮食上的分别,就是我们在食物上,在所吃的东西上,有所分别。……利未记十一章所说到的动物……乃是表征不同种类的人。这由行传十章九节下半至十四节,二十七至二十九节可得证明。彼得“看见天开了,有一器皿降下,好像一块大布,系着四角,缒在地上,里面有地上各样四足的走兽和爬物,并天空的飞鸟”(11~12)。起初,彼得不明白这些走兽、爬物和飞鸟表征人;最后他终于明白这点,因为在哥尼流家里的乃是人,不是走兽(27~28)。
7Discernment in diet is a matter of discernment in food-stuffs, of discernment in what we eat… The animals mentioned in Leviticus 11…typify persons; they are figures that describe different kinds of persons. This is proved by Acts 10:9b-14, 27-29. Peter “beheld heaven opened, and a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, being let down by four corners onto the earth, in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of heaven” (vv. 11-12). At first, Peter did not understand that these animals, reptiles, and birds were figures of people. Eventually he came to understand this, for in the house of Cornelius there were people, not beasts (vv. 27-28).