Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Ver. 19. And goeth out into the draught] Or into the long and lowermost gut, as physicians use the word, αφεδρων : and as it is, 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 5:12. Robert Smith, martyr, made one of Bonner's doctors that examined him, say, that his God must needs enter into the belly, and so fall into the draught. To which he answered, What derogation was it to Christ, when the Jews spit in his face? If the Jews (said Smith) being his enemies did but spit in his face, and we being his friends throw him into the draught, which of us deserveth the greater damnation? (Acts and Mon)
Purging all meats] That is, leaving (by this separation) the nourishment of the body clear from the dregs.