Again it may be necessary to introduce the subject, for example, “God spoke to him again.” The meaning of unclean … clean in the sense of “that which should not be eaten” and “that which is suitable to be eaten” may need to be quite specific, for example, “do not think that anything is unsuitable to eat if God has said it is suitable to eat.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .