John Trapp on Matthew 15:2

Verse 2. Transgresse the tradition of the Elders?] They cryed up aloud Traditions, and the authority of Antiquity. Similem hodie dicam Papistae nobis scribunt. For as the Philosophers fled and hid themselves in the haereticks, as one saith, so did the Scribes and Pharisees in the Popish Doctours. Non tam ovum ovo simile: One egge or apple is not so like another, as Pharisees and Papists. The Pharisees deemed it as great a sin to eat with unwashen hands, [illegible: 1 word]. Antiquit. Heb. [illegible: 1 word]. 49. as to commit fornication. Semblably, the Papists count it worse to deface an Idol, then to kill a man, to eat flesh or eggs on a fasting day, then to commit incest, and for a Priest to have one wife then ten harlots. [non-Latin text not transcribed], say some, is the number of the beast, 666.Parcus in [illegible: 1 word].