Mark 7:9 - Exposition

Here the word καλῶς is repeated. Full well ( καλῶς ) do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition . It is as though our Lord said, "Your traditions are not instituted by God, or by his servants the prophets, but they are modern inventions, which you desire to defend, not out of love or reverence for them, but because you are the successors of those who invented them, and arrogate to yourselves the power of adding to them and making similar new traditions.