“Thus then it is not meat that makes men unclean, but wickedness, which works in us the passions which come from within; wherefore it goes on: And he said, That which cometh out of a man, that defileth a man.”
Bede, 8th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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20And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
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18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
— Mark 7:20 —
21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,