These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.
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Jerome
AD 420
He is reproved by the Lord, because He supposed that to be spokenparabolically, which was indeed spoken plainly. Which teaches us that the hearer is to be blamed who would take dark sayings as clear, or clear sayings as obscure.
