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Rh whose daughter had an uncleane Spirit, entred in, and fel downe at his feet. For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophænician borne. And she besought him that he would cast forth the Divel out of her daughter. Who said to her: Suffer first the children to be filled. For it is not good to take the childrens bread, and cast it to the dogs. But she answered, and said to him: Yea Lord; for the whelpes also eate under the table of the crummes of the children. And he said to her: For this saying goe thy way, the Divel is gone out of thy daughter. And when she was departed into her house, she found the maid lying upon the bed, and the Divel gone out.

And againe going out of the coasts ′ of Tyre, he came by Sidon’ to the sea of Galilee through the middes of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to him one deafe and dumme; and they besought him that he would impose his hand upon him. And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his eares, and ″ spitting, touched his tongue; And looking up unto Heaven, he groned, and said to him: ″ Ephphetha, which is, Be thou opened. And immediatly his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake right. And he commanded them not tel any body. But how much he commanded them, so much the more a great deale did they publish it. And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done al things wel; he hath made both the deafe to heare, and the dumme to speake. ✠

ANNOTATIONS. VII.

2. Common.) Common and uncleane is al one. For the Jewes were commanded by the Law to eate certaine kindes of meats only, and not al indifferently: and because these were separated from other meats, and as it were sanctified to their use, they called the other common and profane: and because the Law calleth those cleane and these uncleane, thereof it is, that uncleane and common is al one, as in this Chapter often, and Act. 10.

7. Precepts of men.) Mens ordinances which be repugnant to Gods commandements, be here condemned as al observations not edifying nor profitable to the fulfilling of Gods commandements, be vaine and superfluous: as many observations of the Pharisees were then, and the like traditions of Heretikes be now for howsoever they bragge of Scriptures, al their manner of administration and ministerie is their owne tradition and invention without al Scripture and warrant of Gods word. But the traditions of the Apostles & Ancients, and al the precepts of holy Church we are commanded to keep, as things not prescribed by man but by the Holy Ghost. Act. 15, 28. 41. 2 Thessal. 2, 15.

11. Guift.) To give to the Church or Altar is not forbiden, but the forsaking of a mans parents in their necessitie, pretending or excusing the matter upon his giving that which should relieve them, to God or to the Altar, that is impious and unnatural. And these Pharisees teaching children so to neglect their duties to their parents, did wickedly.

15. Nothing entering into a man.) As these wordes of our Saviour doe not import, that the Jewes then might have eaten of those meates which God forbade them: no more doe they now, that we Christians may eate of meates which the Church forbiddeth us. And yet both then and now al meates are cleane, and nothing entering into a man, defileth a man. For neither they then, nor we now abstaine, for that any meates are of their nature abominable, or defile the eaters, but they for signification, we for obedience and chastisement of our bodies. Rh