Evening, whether the action were lawful or not. (Menochius) --- Some explain this verse, of nocturnal inconveniences; and ver. 18, of the act of marriage. The latter rendered unclean only in as much as it hindered a person from partaking of any thing sacred, though he might perform the duties of life. (Calmet) --- This law was to lay some restraint on the too frequent use of marriage. (Theodoret) (Du Hamel)
Most of the ancient religions made a similar recognition of impurity and of the need of purfication. Leviticus 15:17 EVERY GARMENT - Compare Jude 1:23....
5. CONCERNING ISSUES: MAN'S WEAKNESS AND DEFILEMENT CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The uncleanness of a man (Leviticus 15:1)_ 2. The uncleanness of a woman (Leviticus 15:19) The whole chapter shows the deplorable...
LEVITICUS 15. ISSUES. Four kinds are considered; the first of these (Leviticus 15:1) is apparently pathological, though there is no reference to venereal diseases, which are unknown in the OT; the sec...
EMISSIONS, VOLUNTARY OR OTHERWISE. Here only washing is needed. The existence of the first part of the law may well help to allay the horror with which the phenomenon is often needlessly regarded. In...
WASH. bathe. Here, with _eth kol_ added, meaning all his body, to distinguish it from the word "flesh", which is thus probably used in this section by the Figure of speech _Euphemy_ (App-6) for privat...
A similar precept is found in Deuteronomy 23:10....
INVOLUNTARY EMISSION OF SEED 15:16-18 TEXT 15:16-18 16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 17 And every...
_AND THE PRIEST SHALL OFFER THEM, THE ONE FOR A SIN OFFERING, AND THE OTHER FOR A BURNT OFFERING; AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR HIM BEFORE THE LORD FOR HIS ISSUE._ No JFB commentary on t...
UNCLEANNESS CONNECTED WITH SEXUAL DISCHARGES The subject of this chapter is related to that of Leviticus 12 : see intro. there. Here three natural (Leviticus 15:16; Leviticus 15:18; Leviticus 15:19) a...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
AND IF ANY MAN’S SEED. — The second case, discussed in this and the following verses, is that of an involuntary emission, as in Deuteronomy 23:10. The man who sustained it had simply to immerse his wh...
וְ אִ֕ישׁ כִּֽי ־תֵצֵ֥א מִמֶּ֖נּוּ שִׁכְבַת ־
OF THE UNCLEANNESS OF ISSUES Leviticus 15:1 INASMUCH as the law concerning defilement from issues is presupposed and referred to in that concerning the defilement of child bearing, in chapter 12, it...
Chapter fifteen is a strange and solemn one in many ways, dealing as it does with the law of uncleanness as it applies to the question of issues. As in the case of the laws concerning childbirth, here...
And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his (f) flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. (f) Meaning, all his body....
Such are the natural consequences of our fallen state, that everything connected with it is unclean. The very desires of nature are corrupt, and the multiplying of our species is in sin. Psalms 51:5....
The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...
Other cases connected with the weakness of nature are mentioned, but which point out that, sin having come in, all that is of nature, of the flesh, defiles (whatever may be the excuse as to the weakne...
AND IF ANY MAN'S SEED OF COPULATION GO OUT FROM HIM,.... Not in lawful cohabitation, nor voluntarily, but involuntarily, as Aben Ezra observes; not through any disorder, which came by an accident, or...
And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. Ver. 16. _Go out from him._] By nocturnal pollutions, filthy dreams, &c....
_And be unclean until the even_ So as that they should not dare to approach the sanctuary for that day; _until even_ That is, till next day began. This law served both to preserve a due regard to natu...
1 The vncleannes of men in their issues. 13 The clensing of them. 19 The vncleannesse of women in their issues. 28 Their clensing. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying, 2 Speake...
And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, inadvertently, during sleep, THEN HE SHALL WASH ALL HIS FLESH IN WATER, AND BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN....
IN THE CASE OF MEN...
UNAVOIDABLE DISCHARGES (VV. 1-33) Because leprosy speaks of the outbreak of positive sin, it required rigorous treatment. Nothing like this is intimated in chapter 15, but rather the frailty of the hu...
GO OUT FROM HIM; not through weakness of the parts, as that LEVITICUS 15:3; but in his sleep, which is called _nightly pollution_, which, though involuntary, might arise from some lustful dream or ima...
This chapter treats of a variety of ceremonial uncleannesses of a much less serious nature than leprosy. This latter would seem to be presented as the expression of the deep-seated energy of nature's...
Leviticus 15:16 man H376 emission H3318 (H8799) semen H2233 H7902 wash H7364 (H8804) body H1
THE UNCLEANNESS OF A MAN'S NATURAL EMISSION (LEVITICUS 15:16). Leviticus 15:16 “And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until...
CONTENTS: Imperative personal cleanliness. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Unclean diseases of the flesh are a wound and dishonor, the consumption of the body, and a sin which is often it...
Leviticus 15:2. _Running issue._ The holy scriptures speak modestly of obscene things. It is a kind of gonorrhea, occasioned by whoredom, or by lascivious habits. How strikingly is the providence of G...
_Because of his issue he is unclean._ HUMAN NATURE UNCLEAN 1. We learn, in a very striking manner, the intense holiness of the Divine presence. Not a soil, not a stain, not a speck can be tolerated...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 15:1 These regulations about discharges from male and female reproductive organs emphasize the transmission of infection. No matter how it happens, the person infected is r...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 15:16 The EMISSION OF SEMEN makes a man unclean, perhaps because, like blood, it is a source of life. ⇐
Secret Physical Impurities SUGGESTIVE READINGS Secret impurities, whether of men or women, are carefully discriminated here as resulting from guilty sexual intercourse, and as the effect of natural i...
EXPOSITION RUNNING ISSUES FROM THE HUMAN BODY. These are the fourth cause of ceremonial uncleanness. We are not to look for a moral basis for the regulation on account of any vicious habit connected w...
Now as we get into the fifteenth chapter God deals with sort of a boil kind of a thing or any breaking out on your body, any kind of a running sore that a person might have. That he is unclean and the...
1 John 1:7; 1 Peter 2:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Deuteronomy 23:10;...