Mar 7:5-13 | Barnes

Mark 7:5-13

Verse 6.

(o) "Esaias" Isa 29:13 Verse 7. For doctrines. For commands of God binding on the conscience. Imposing your traditions as equal in authority to the commands of God. Verse 8. Laying aside. Rejecting, or making it give place to traditions; considering the traditions as superior in authority to the Divine law. This was the uniform doctrine of the Pharisees. See Mt 15:1-9.

The tradition of men. What has been handed down by men, or what rests solely on their authority.

(p) "For laying aside" Isa 1:12 Verse 9. Full well. These words are capable of different interpretations. Some read them as a question: "Do ye do well in rejecting?" etc. Others suppose they mean skilfully, cunningly. "You show great cunning, or art, in laying aside God's commands, and substituting in their place those of men." Others suppose them to be ironical. "How nobly you act! From conscientious attachment to your traditions, you have made void the law of God;" meaning to intimate by it, that they had acted wickedly and basely.

(1) "reject" or, "frustrate" Verse 10.

(q) "Honour thy father" Ex 20:12, De 5:16 Verse 11.

(r) "Whoso curses" Ex 21:17, Lev 20:9, Prov 20:20