{Howbeit} (pl(886e)). See Lu 6:24 . Instead of devoting so
much attention to the outside. {Those things which are within}
( a enonta). Articular neuter plural participle from eneimi,
to be in, common verb. This precise phrase only here in the N.T.
though in the papyri, and it is not clear what it means.
Probably, give as alms the things within the dishes, that is have
inward righteousness with a brotherly spirit and the outward
becomes "clean" (kathara). Properly understood, this is not
irony and is not Ebionism, but good Christianity (Plummer).
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