These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Ver. 20. These are the things which defile a man] Make him a loathsome leper in God's sight, his heart being a filthy dunghill of all abominable vices, his life a long chain of sinful actions, a very continued web of wickedness. And whereas repentance is the soul's vomit, and confession the spunge that wipes out all the blots and blurs of our lives, that cunning manslayer holds the lips close that the heart may not disburden itself by so wholesome evacuation, and doth what he can to hinder the birth of repentance, that fair and happy daughter of an ugly and odious mother, sin. a
a εχθρου πατρος φιλτατον τεκνον .