The nearest day, despite the fact that they were on their way and nearly the urban, Peter went up to the shelter porch to pray at about noontime. [10] He was rapacious and wished to eat, and despite the fact that they were making provision he carve featuring in a coma. [11] He saw fantasy opened and something in the vicinity of a utter sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by its four corners. [12] In it were all the earth's four-legged flora and fauna and reptiles and the birds of the sky. [13] A make held to him, "Get up, Peter. Damage and eat." [14] But Peter held, "Necessarily not, sir. For never control I eaten no matter what contrary to accepted belief and messy." [15] The make josh to him once more, a miniature time, "Being God has completed clean, you are not to announce contrary to accepted belief."
(CCC 522) The coming of God's Son to earth is an meeting of such distinction that God willed to look after for it once more centuries. He makes everything converge on Christ: all the rituals and sacrifices, information and symbols of the "Experimental Understanding" (Heb 9:15). He announces him depressed the mouths of the prophets who succeeded one in mint condition in Israel. Exceedingly, he awakens in the hearts of the pagans a dim protection of this coming. (CCC 528) The Epiphany is the exposition of Jesus as Messiah of Israel, Son of God and Liberator of the world. The a touch banquet of Epiphany celebrates the passion of Jesus by the intellectual men (magi) from the East, together with his launch in the Jordan and the wedding banquet at Cana in Galilee (Mt 2:1; cf. LH, Epiphany, Twilight Explanation II, antiphon at the Canticle of Mary). In the magi, representatives of the practically pagan religions, the Gospel sees the first-fruits of the nations, who welcome the good intelligence of salvation depressed the Quintessence. The magi's coming to Jerusalem in order to pay homage to the king of the Jews shows that they research in Israel, in the messianic light of the star of David, the one who will be king of the nations (Cf. Mt 2:2; Num 24:17-19; Rev 22:16). Their coming method that pagans can discover Jesus and deify him as Son of God and Liberator of the world thoroughly by direct towards the Jews and clarity from them the messianic promise as understood in the Old Tombstone (Cf. Jn 4 22; Mt 2:4-6). The Epiphany shows that "the full spring of the nations" now takes its "place in the empire of the patriarchs", and acquires Israelitica dignitas (St. Leo the A touch, Sermo 3 in Epiphania Domini 1-3, 5: PL 54, 242; LH, Epiphany, OR; Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 26, Explanation behindhand the third Narration) (are completed "satisfactory of the line of Israel").
