Mk 7:3

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oft. or, diligently.

Gr. With the fist.

Up to the elbow.Theophylact.

[Pugme ,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.]

The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos ,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.

the tradition.

Mark 7:7-10; Mark 7:13; Matt 15:2-6; Gal 1:14; Col 2:8; Col 2:21-23; 1Pet 1:18