“(in Matt. 15) But common is here put for unclean; for the people of the Jews, boasting that they were the portion of God, called those meats common, which all made use of.”
Jerome, 5th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
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1Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
— Mark 7:2 —
3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4And when they come from the 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 pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.