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Mark 7:2

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

For the disciples of the Lord, who were taught only the practice of virtue, used to eat in a simple way, without washing their hands; but the Pharisees, wishing to find an occasion of blame against them, took it up; they did not indeed blame them as transgressors of the law, but for transgressing the traditions of the elders. Wherefore it goes on: For the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Western Saints

Jerome

But common is here put for unclean; for the people of the Jews, boasting that they were the portion of God, called those meats common, which all made use of.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗