Excerpt from Twenty Sermons
These words recall to many of you a most familiar picture, for the story of St. Peter"s vision is one of those passages of the New Testament which have almost become the proverbs of mankind. Peter had been sitting on the top of Simon"s house at Jaffa, and there had been shown to him the sight of the great sheet full of all living beasts, of which he had been bidden to take and eat. And when he hesitated, you remember how a voice had spoken to him, and rebuked the narrow punctiliousness with which he drew distinctions, and thought some of God"s creatures clean and others unclean. He was sitting there, pondering this vision, "doubting in himself what the vision which he had seen should mean." A new idea had come to him. He saw it very vaguely; and its developments, what it would lead to if he followed it out, he could not see at all. It was all abstract and impalpable. It just bewildered and eluded him.
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