The
Gospel According to Mark
Chapter
7:8-9, 13
8
For ye lay the Commandments of God apart, and observe the tradition
of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like
things ye do.
9
And he said unto them, Well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye
may observe your own tradition.
13
Making the word of God of none authority, by your tradition which ye
have ordained: and ye do many such like things.
“Verse
8 - The devices of superstitious men do not only not fulfill the Law
of God (as they blasphemously persuade themselves) but also do
utterly take it away.
Verse
9 - True Religion, which is clean contrary to superstition,
consisteth in spiritual worship: and all enemies of true Religion,
although they seem to have taken deep root, shall be plucked up.” -
Footnotes - GNV Translation
“The
words, your own, are emphatical, distinguishing the commandments of
men, the corrupt traditions of the Pharisees, from the commandments
of God. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother — “Lest
the charge, which our Lord brought against the Pharisees, should be
thought without foundation, because it contained an imputation of
such gross profaneness, he supported it by an instance of an
atrocious kind. God. That which should have succoured you, is given
to the temple. Thus ye hypocrites have, by your frivolous traditions,
made void the commandment of God, though of immutable and eternal
obligation; and disguised with the cloak of piety the most horrid and
unnatural action that a man can easily be guilty of.”
Joseph
Benson - Theologian
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