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Selected Verse: Mark 7:19 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Mr 7:19 |
Strong Concordance |
Because [3754] it entereth [1531] not [3756] into [1519] his [846] heart [2588], but [235] into [1519] the belly [2836], and [2532] goeth out [1607] into [1519] the draught [856], purging [2511] all [3956] meats [1033]? |
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King James |
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Because it entereth
Because it does not enter into the heart of him, but into the bowels is passed -- purifying all the food. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Draught (ἀφεδρῶνα)
Liddell and Scott give only one definition - a privy, cloaca; and derive from ἕδρα, seat, breech, fundament. Compare English stool. The word does not refer to a part of the body.
Purging all meats (καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα)
According to the A. V. these words are in apposition with draught: the draught which makes pure the whole of the food, since it is the place designed for receiving the impure excrements.
Christ was enforcing the truth that all defilement comes from within. This was in the face of the Rabbinic distinctions between clean and unclean meats. Christ asserts that Levitical uncleanness, such as eating with unwashed hands, is of small importance compared with moral uncleanness. Peter, still under the influence of the old ideas, cannot understand the saying and asks an explanation (Mat 15:15), which Christ gives in Mar 7:18-23. The words purging all meats (Rev., making all meats clean) are not Christ's, but the Evangelist's, explaining the bearing of Christ's words; and therefore the Rev. properly renders, this he said (italics), making all meats clean. This was the interpretation of Chrysostom, who says in his homily on Matthew: "But Mark says that he said these things making all meats pure." Canon Farrar refers to a passage cited from Gregory Thaumaturgus: "And the Saviour, who purifies all meats, says." This rendering is significant in the light of Peter's vision of the great sheet, and of the words, "What God hath cleansed" (ἐκαθάρισε), in which Peter probably realized for the first time the import of the Lord's words on this occasion. Canon Farrar remarks: "It is doubtless due to the fact that St. Peter, the informant of St. Mark, in writing his Gospel, and as the sole ultimate authority for this vision in the Acts, is the source of both narratives, - that we owe the hitherto unnoticed circumstance that the two verbs, cleanse and profane (or defile), both in a peculiarly pregnant sense, are the two most prominent words in the narrative of both events" ("Life and Work of Paul," i., 276-7). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Purging all meats - Probably the seat was usually placed over running water. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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 the meats that are eaten; and thus they are purged, nothing being left behind but what is proper for the support of the body. |
18 And [2532] he saith [3004] unto them [846], Are [2075] ye [5210] so [3779] without understanding [801] also [2532]? Do ye [3539] not [3756] perceive [3539], that [3754] whatsoever thing [3956] from without [1855] entereth [1531] into [1519] the man [444], it cannot [3756] [1410] defile [2840] him [846];
19 Because [3754] it entereth [1531] not [3756] into [1519] his [846] heart [2588], but [235] into [1519] the belly [2836], and [2532] goeth out [1607] into [1519] the draught [856], purging [2511] all [3956] meats [1033]?
20 And [1161] he said [3004], [3754] That which cometh [1607] out of [1537] the man [444], that [1565] defileth [2840] the man [444].
21 For [1063] from within [2081], out of [1537] the heart [2588] of men [444], proceed [1607] evil [2556] thoughts [1261], adulteries [3430], fornications [4202], murders [5408],
22 Thefts [2829], covetousness [4124], wickedness [4189], deceit [1388], lasciviousness [766], an evil [4190] eye [3788], blasphemy [988], pride [5243], foolishness [877]:
23 All [3956] these [5023] evil things [4190] come [1607] from within [2081], and [2532] defile [2840] the man [444].
15 Then [1161] answered [611] Peter [4074] and said [2036] unto him [846], Declare [5419] unto us [2254] this [5026] parable [3850].
17 Do [3539] not [3768] ye [3539] yet [3768] understand [3539], that [3754] whatsoever [3956] entereth in [1531] at [1519] the mouth [4750] goeth [5562] into [1519] the belly [2836], and [2532] is cast out [1544] into [1519] the draught [856]?