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7:4 And [when they come] from the {d} market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, [as] the washing of cups, and {e} pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
(d) That is to say, after coming from civil and worldly affairs they do not eat unless they first wash themselves.
(e) By these words are understood all types of vessels which we use daily.
7:4 [When they come] from the market, except they wash, they eat not. In the Greek, not the word nipto, rendered wash elsewhere in the passage, but baptizo, baptize. Abbott renders it plunge and says:
Apparently, in the ritual of the Pharisees, washing by pouring on water sufficed for those who remained at home, but immersion of the hands in water was required of those who had gone abroad.''
Many other things. They not only insisted on washing the hands, because of the tradition, but also, many other things. Geikie says:
The law of Moses required purifications in certain cases (Le 12:1-5), but the rabbis had preserved the spirit of Leviticus in this as in other things, for they taught that food and drink could not be taken with a good conscience when there was the possibility of ceremonial defilement. If every perceivable precaution had not been taken, the person or the vessel used might have contracted impurity, which would thus be conveyed to the food, and through the food to the body, and by it to the soul. Hence it had been long a custom, and latterly a strict law, that before every meal not only the hands, but even the dishes, couches, and tables, should be scrupulously washed.''
7:4 Washing of cups and pots and brazen vessels and couches - The Greek word (baptisms) means indifferently either washing or sprinkling. The cups, pots, and vessels were washed; the couches sprinkled.
7:1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.
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Bathe Bathing Beds Brasen Brazen Bronze Cleanse Cling Copper Couches Cups Customs Eat Except First Food Good Hands Hold Kettles Market Marketplace Market-Place Observe Order Other Pitchers Pots Purify Received Rinsing Tables Themselves Traditions Unless Utensils Vessels Wash Washed Washing Washings
