John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:19
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Ver. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts ] These are the first and immediate issue of the sinful soul; words and deeds, borborology a and enormity, follow in their order. "And I dare be bold to say," saith a reverend divine, b "that though the act contract the guilt, because the lust is then grown up to a height, so that it is come to an absolute will in... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:18
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. Ver. 18. Come forth from the heart ] That forth of sin and fountain of folly; for "as a fountain casteth forth her waters, so doth the heart of man cast out its wickedness," Jeremiah 6:7 ; and if the tongue be "a world of wickedness," James 3:6 , what is the heart, that seminary of sin, wherein is a πανσπερμια , as Empedocles saith in Aristotle. a In this sea are not only that leviathan the... read more