Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
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Gill's Exposition
And he said,.... Continued to say in his discourse; though this is left but in the Syriac version;
that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man; meaning, not his excrements, which were…
See this passage explained in the notes at Mat. 15:1-20. Mar 7:1 Came from Jerusalem - Probably to observe his conduct, and to find matter of accusation against him. Mar 7:2 Defiled hands - The hands…
Adam Clarke
Into the draught - See on Mat 15:17 (note).
Purging all meats? - For what is separated from the different aliments taken into the stomach, and thrown out of the body, is the innutritious parts of all…
One great design of Christ's coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added…
Cambridge Bible
into the draught Comp. 2Ki 10:27, "And they.… brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draughthouseunto this day." Draught = latrina, cloaca, from Icel. draf, dregs, dirt, connected with A.S.…
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