One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to ensure early burial, and to correct a pr…

He that toucheth the dead body ... — The defilement caused by touching the dead body of a beast lasted only until the…

I wonder whether that is a revelation of our being justified through the resurrection of Christ, which took place on the third day after his death,…

He that toucheth the dead body. He now describes certain forms of pollution for which washing was necessary. All of them, however, come to…

He that toucheth the dead body of any man
A man and not a beast, as Aben Ezra observes; for he that touched the dead…

Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered the world through sin, and reigns by its power. Th…