19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; …
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)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 to the law of God’s making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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