Teks -- Matthew 15:17 (NET)

15:17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

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Robertson: Mat 15:17 - Perceive ye not?

Perceive ye not? ( ou noeite ).

Christ expects us to make use of our nous , intellect, not for pride, but for insight. The mind does not work infallibly, but we should use it for its God-given purpose. Intellectual laziness or flabbiness is no credit to a devout soul.

Wesley: Mat 15:17 - Are ye also yet without understanding

How fair and candid are the sacred historians? Never concealing or excusing their own blemishes.

JFB: Mat 15:17-18 - Do not ye yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth, &c.

Familiar though these sayings have now become, what freedom from bondage to outward things do they proclaim, on the one hand; and on the other, how searching is the truth which they express--that nothing which enters from without can really defile us; and that only the evil that is in the heart, that is allowed to stir there, to rise up in thought and affection, and to flow forth in voluntary action, really defiles a man!

Clarke: Mat 15:17 - Cast out into the draught

Cast out into the draught - Εις αφεδωνα, - And beeth into the forthgoing a sent - what is not fit for nourishment is evacuated; is thrown into the sink. This I believe to be the meaning of this difficult and variously translated word, αφεδρων . Diodati translates it properly, nella latrina , into the privy. And the Persian translator has given a good paraphrase, and appears to have collected the general meaning her teche der dehen ander ayeed , az nusheeb beeroon rood , we ber zemeen aftad : "Whatsoever enters into the mouth goes downward, and falls upon the ground."Michaelis, and his annotator, Dr. Marsh, have been much perplexed with this perplexing passage. See Michaelis’ s Introduction, vol. i. note 35. p. 458.

TSK: Mat 15:17 - that // and is

that : Mat 7:19, Mat 7:20; Luk 6:45; 1Co 6:13; Col 2:21, Col 2:22; Jam 3:6

and is : 2Ki 10:27

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Poole: Mat 15:17-20

Ver. 17-20. Mark hath this, with very small difference in words, Mar 7:18-23 ; only he specifies some more sins than Matthew enumerates. The sum of what our Saviour saith is this: That all sin proceedeth from lust, some desires in the heart of man after things forbidden in the law of God. All the ticklings of our hearts with such thoughts, all the willings and desires of such things, though they never issue in overt acts, yet defile and pollute a man; and from these inward motions of the heart proceed those overt acts (mentioned by Matthew or Mark) of murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, pride, foolishness: now these things, take them in their nest, which is the heart, they defile and pollute that; take them in their passage through our lips into the world, they pollute that; take them in their overt act, they pollute the man. But to eat with unwashen hands, a thing no where forbidden by God, only by the Pharisees, who had no such authority given them from God to command any such things, this doth not pollute a man. It is possible that men may sin in not obeying the commandments of men, but it must be then in things in which God hath authorized them to command, and to determine our practice in, for the pollution lies in a disobedience to the commandment of God, not of men.

Gill: Mat 15:17 - Do not ye understand // that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Do not ye understand,.... You must understand, you cannot be so ignorant,

that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? that is, that whatsoever food a man takes in at his mouth, he swallows down, and it is received into his stomach; which, having performed its office, the grosser parts go down into the belly, and passing through the bowels, are evacuated into the vault, or privy, "purging all meats", as Mark says; for that only receives the filth and excrementitious matter; so that what is left in the body is pure, wholesome, and nourishing: nor can any part of what goes into a man defile him, because it only enters into the body, and passes through it; and, as Mark says, "entereth not into the heart", which is the seat of moral impurity; so that no moral pollution can be contracted by eating any sort of food, even though it should not be clean itself, nor be eaten with clean hands.