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Mat_16:6. The craft and malice of the Pharisees and Sadducees were still fresh in His memory, Mat_16:1-4.
ζύμην τὴν διδαχήν ] ἐκάλεσεν , ὡς ὀξώδη καὶ σαπράν (Euth. Zigabenus); see Mat_16:12. The allusion is to their peculiar sectarian views, in so far as they deviated from the law. The expression is explained differently in Luk_12:1. Comp. note on Gal_5:9; 1Co_5:6. For the figurative use of ùÒÀàÉø by the Rabbis (as denoting the infecting influence of any one who is bad), see Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. p. 2303. Lightfoot on this passage. Used differently again in Mat_13:33.