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Profane - A woman who has been seduced, or one of illegitimate birth. A somewhat stricter rule for the priests’ marriages was revealed to th…

Not take a wife. —From the defilement arising through contact with the dead, the lawgiver passes to the regulation about the pries…

They shall not take a wife. The third kind of purity is in marriage itself, so that the priests’ home may be chaste and free from all dish…

They shall not take a wife [that is] a whore, or profane
By the former is meant a common whore, that prostitutes h…

As these priests were types of Christ, so all ministers must be followers of him, that their example may teach others to imitate the Saviour. Witho…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes