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John Gill's Exposition on Luke 11:40
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, etc.] That is, made clean that which is without, or the outside of the cup and platter; make that which is within also? does not he make the inside clean likewise? whoever washes a cup or platter, but washes and makes clean the inside, as well as the outside? and so ye who are so very careful to have your cups and platters clean, should be as careful what you put in them, that they are clean also; not only that they are clean according to the law, in a ceremonial sense, but in a moral sense, that they are honestly and lawfully got. The word, poiew, rendered “made” and “make”, answers to the Hebrew word hç[, which sometimes signifies to beautify and adorn, and to cleanse, and remove away filth, as by paring nails, and washing the feet; so in (<052112>Deuteronomy 21:12) it is said of a captive woman that a man takes into his house for his wife, among other things, htç[w, “she shall make her nails”; that is, “pare” them, as we render it, and remove the filth from them. Again, in (<101924>2 Samuel 19:24) it is said of Mephibosheth, that from the day king David departed, he had not, hç[, “made his feet”; that is, as the Targum renders it, Pjç al, “he had not washed his feet”; and so other Jewish interpreters understand it, either of his having not washed his feet, much less his whole body f382, or of not having pared his nails f383; and so the Vulgate Latin renders it, that he came to meet the king “with unwashen feet”; which may serve to illustrate and confirm the sense before given: though interpreters generally understand this of God, as the maker of the soul, as well as of the body; and therefore the purity of the former should be regarded, as well as that of the latter.
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