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Mat_15:11. Κοινοῖ ] makes common, profanes ( çÄìÌÅì ), comp. 4Ma_7:6, nowhere found in classical writers; in the New Testament, in Act_10:15; Act_11:9; Act_21:28; Heb_9:13; Rev_21:27. What Jesus has in view at present is not legal, but moral defilement, and which is not produced (1Ti_4:4) by what goes into the mouth (food and drink, as well as the partaking of these with unwashed hands), but by that which comes out of it (improper language). So far as can be gathered from the context, he is not saying anything against the Mosaic regulations relating to meats, though one cannot help regarding what he does say as so applicable to these, as to bring into view the prospect of their abrogation as far as they are merely ceremonial (comp. Keim, and Weizsäcker, p. 463), and, as a consequence of this latter, the triumph of the idea which they embody, i.e. their fulfillment (Mat_5:17). Observe, further, that it is meat and drink only in themselves considered, that he describes as matters of indifference, saying nothing at present as to the special circumstances in which partaking of the one or the other might be regarded as sinful (excess, offences, 1 Corinthians 8, and so on). See Mat_15:17.