The outside of the cup and of the platter. — The latter word in the Greek indicates what we should call a “side-dish,” as distinct from the “charger” of Matthew 14:11. The “outside” includes the inner surface. (Comp., as regards the practice, Mark 7:4.)
Are full of extortion and excess. — The two words point (1) to the source from which the viands and the wine came — the cup and the platter were filled with, or out of the proceeds of, extortion; (2) that to which they tended — they overflowed with unrestrained self-indulgence.