Matthew Chapter 15 verse 17 Holy Bible
Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
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Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
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Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?
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Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
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Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
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do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Whatsoever entereth in at the mouth, etc. Food taken into the mouth goes into the stomach, is assimilated into the bodily system, and its refuse passes away to the draught (ἀφεδρῶνα), the necessary house. It has nothing to do with the heart or the moral being; it affects only the material organization, and has no connection with the spiritual. Christ does not concern himself with questions, which modern philosophers would attempt to solve, concerning the mutual influence of soul and body, the animal and spiritual nature; he puts forth an argument which every one could receive, plain even to those "without understanding." This is the elucidation of the first part of ver. 11. The further explanation follows in vers. 18, 19.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Is cast out into the draught.--The word is used in its old English meaning, as equivalent to drain, sewer, cesspool (see 2Kings 10:27). St. Mark (Mark 7:19) adds the somewhat perplexing words, "purging all meats," on which see Note on that verse. The principle implied is that a process purely physical from first to last cannot in itself bring any moral defilement. It was possible, of course, that the appetites connected with that process might bring the taint of moral evil; but then these appetites were there before the food, and they took their place among the things that came "out of the heart," and not into it.
