LEVITICUS CHAPTER 12 Laws touching the uncleanness of women in child-bearing. Of a son seven days, and her purification thirty-three days, LEVITICUS 12:1. Of a daughter fourteen days, and her purification sixty-six days, LEVITICUS 12:5. Her offering, if rich, a lamb of a year old, a young pigeon or... [ Continue Reading ]
From uncleanness contracted by the touching or eating of external things, he now comes to that uncleanness which ariseth from ourselves. SHE SHALL BE UNCLEAN; not for any filthiness which was either in the conception or in bringing forth, but to signify the universal and deep pollution of man's natu... [ Continue Reading ]
Which law is here repeated, because the woman's uncleanness lasting for seven days, was one, though not the only, reason why the child's circumcision was put off till the eighth day.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHE SHALL THEN CONTINUE, Heb. _sit_, i.e. abide, as that word is oft used, as GENESIS 22:5, GENESIS 34:10, or tarry at home, nor go into the sanctuary. IN THE BLOOD OF HER PURIFYING; in her polluted and separated estate; for the word _blood or bloods_ signifies both guilt, as GENESIS 4:10, and uncle... [ Continue Reading ]
The time in both particulars is double to the former, not so much from natural causes, because the purifications in female births are longer and slower, which if it were true, yet doth not extend to any such time as here is mentioned, as for moral reasons; either to be as a blot upon that sex for be... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A SON, OR FOR A DAUGHTER; for the birth of a son, or of a daughter; but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses. FOR A SIN-OFFERING; either because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation; or for those particular sins relating to the ti... [ Continue Reading ]
For though there was a difference in the time of her uncleanness for the one and for the other, yet both were to be purl fled one and the same way; to note, that though all sins and sinners were not equal, yet all were to be cleansed by the same means, to wit, by Christ, and by faith. See 1 CORINTHI... [ Continue Reading ]
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