Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 7:17

17 And when he was entred into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

That is concerning this saying of his, which appeared to them Dark: For a Parable somet[illegible: 1 letter]mes in Scripture signifieth no more Psal. 49.4. yet one would think that our Saviours saying was plain enough. But Custom is a great Tyrant. The prejudice they had received from their Superstitious teachers, Blinded them, and lock't up their Souls from receiving true and spiritual Instructions, we see the same thing every day. What an heinous thing do the Blind Papists think it i[illegible: 1 letter] to eat Flesh in Lent, or on one of their Fish days? never considering by what Law of God any Men are restrained in such things. Our Saviour in the next Words checks their Blindness.

Marginal references: Matth. 15.15.