because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
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because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
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because it entrith not in to his hert but into the belly: and goeth out into the draught that porgeth oute all meates.
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Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught which is the purging of all meates?
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- Matthew 15:17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
- Luke 11:41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
- Acts 10:15 A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
- Acts 11:9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
- Romans 14:1-12 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand. One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks. For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’ ” So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
- Colossians 2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
- Colossians 2:21-22 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For that that goeth into the draught, purgeth all…
For that that goeth into the draught, purgeth all meats.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but…
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Ver. 19. And goeth out into the draught] Or into the long and lowermost gut, as physicians use the word, αφεδρων: and as it is, 1Sa 5:9; 1Sa 5:12. Robert Smith, martyr, made one of Bonner’s doctors that examined him, say, that his God must needs enter into the belly, and so fall into the draught. To which he answered, What derogation was it to Christ, when the Jews spit in his face? If the Jews (said Smith) being his enemies did but spit in his face, and we being his friends throw him into the draught, which of us deserveth the greater damnation? (Acts and Mon)
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Purging all meats] That is, leaving (by this separation) the nourishment of the body clear from the dregs.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said,.... Continued to say in his discourse;…
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 unclean by the law, Deu 23:13 but what comes out of his heart, by his mouth; or is expressed in action, as appears by what follows; See Gill on Mat 15:18.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Purging all meats - Probably the seat was usually…
Purging all meats - Probably the seat was usually placed over running water.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. Into the draught] See Clarke on Mt…
Verse 19. Into the draught] See Clarke on Mt 15:17.
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 the meats that are eaten; and thus they are purged, nothing being left behind but what is proper for the support of the body.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. into the draught] Comp. 2Ki_10:27, “And they.… brake…
19. into the draught] Comp. 2Ki_10:27, “And they.… brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draughthouse unto this day.” Draught = latrina, cloaca, from Icel. draf, dregs, dirt, connected with A.S. drabbe, dréfe. Comp. Shakespeare, Tim. of Ath. v. i. 105, “Hang them, or stab them, drown them in a draught.” “There was a godde of idlenesse, a goddesse of the draught or jakes.” Burton, Anat. of Mel.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) It entereth not into his heart.—The words are…
(19) It entereth not into his heart.—The words are not in St. Matthew, and emphasise the contrast with what follows. The “heart” is, after the common Hebrew idiom, the symbol of the mind as well as the affections. (Comp. Pro_7:7; Pro_9:4; Pro_9:16; Pro_10:13, in all of which “understanding” stands for the Hebrew of “heart.”)
Purging all meats.—This also is peculiar to St. Mark, and presents some difficulties. In the commonly received text, the participle is in the neuter nominative, agreeing with the nominative to the verb “goeth out.” But in this construction it is difficult to see in what sense that which goeth into the mouth—itself an article of food, with no special character—can be said to purge or cleanse all other forms of food. The better MSS., however, give the participle in the masculine. This has been explained by many as a grammatical anomaly, and the participle being treated as if it agreed (though in a different case) with the word “draught” or “cesspool,” the latter is said to cleanse all meats, as removing the excreta, or impure parts, from them, and leaving only that which nourishes the body. A far better construction, both as to grammar and meaning, is found by making the word “purging,” or better, cleansing, agree with the subject of the verb “He saith,” in Mar_7:18—“He saith this . . . and in so saying, cleanseth all meats.” So taken, the words anticipate, in almost the same terms, the truth of Act_10:15, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” The construction is tenable grammatically, has the support of high authority both ancient and modern, and obviously gives a much better sense. It is a possible conjecture that the words “cleansing all meats” may have been, at first, a marginal note (like the addition in Mar_7:16), attached to “He saith,” and have afterwards found their way into the text.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Because it entereth
Because it entereth
Because it does not enter into the heart of him, but into the bowels is passed -- purifying all the food.
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