John Trapp on Matthew 15:17

Verse 17. Whatsoever entereth in at the mouth] In nature, Animantis cujus que vita est fuga: Life, were it not for the repair by daily [illegible: 1 word], would be soon extinguished. Hence it is called, [illegible: 1 word]. 5. 7, 10. The life of our hand, because maintained by the labour of our [illegible: 1 word]. But that which our Saviour here driveth at is, to set forth the ridiculous [illegible: 1 word]: of the Pharisees, whiles they placed a kinde of [illegible: 1 word] in those things that were evacuated and thrown into [illegible: 1 word] ad Episc. [illegible: 1 word]. de [illegible: 3 words], the draught. And do not Papists the very [illegible: 1 word]? Qui gustavit ovum trahitur in carcerem, cogitur que de haeresi causam dicere, saith Erasmus. To eat flesh, or but an egg in Lent, is punished with death. Whereas in the year of Christ, 330, Spiridion a godly Bishop in Cyprus, having not what else ready to set before a guest that came to him in the Lent, set him a piece of porke to feed on. And when the stranger made scruple of eating flesh in Lent, saying I am a Christian, and may not do it: Nay therefore thou maistR m 14 do it said he, because to the pure all things are pure, and the [illegible: 1 word] of God consisteth not in meats and drinks, &c.