Mark vii. 19. Origen in his commentary on this passage of St. Matthew, refers also to St. Mark, where he reads as St. Chrysostom here, καθαρζων instead of καθαρζον. The word “cleansing” or “purging” is therefore referred to our Lord, and our Saviour’s words will stand as a parenthesis. See Field in loc. [The translator doubtless means that this view makes our Lord’s own words a parenthetical explanation of the evangelist. So the R.V. gives the clause. That καθαρζων is the correct reading is quite certain, but German commentators refer it to ἀφδρνα, accepting a change of construction. The evangelist Mark rarely inserts explanations. The citation from Origen will be found in Tischendorf, VIII., note on Mark vii. 19. Despite the authority of Origen and Chrysostom, the rendering of the R.V. is of doubtful propriety.—R.]