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The Heart's Corrupt Fountain
Commentators emphasize that this list of sins illustrates a deeper truth: a corrupt heart is the source of all wickedness. As one scholar puts it, just as a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, a corrupt heart produces sinful actions, words, and desires. The true issue is not external but internal defilement.
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Charles Ellicott
On Mark 7:22
19th Century
Bishop
Covetousness, wickedness.—The Greek words for these are, like the preceding, in the plural, as pointing to the manifold forms in w…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 7:22
The main force of this passage is the same as in v.15b: the source of uncleanness in anyone is the heart (Jeremiah 17:9), for that is w…
John Gill
On Mark 7:22
17th Century
Pastor
Thefts
These also are mentioned in Matthew, but Mark omits "false witnesses", and adds the following; which, excepti…
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Matthew Henry
On Mark 7:14–23
17th Century
Minister
Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corr…