These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Leviti…

To make a difference. —Better, that you may put difference, as the Authorised Version renders the same word in Leviticus …

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean ,
&c.] Whether of beasts, fish, fowl, and flying creeping thi…

These laws seem to have been intended,

1. As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…