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 shall purify himself ... — The verse may be rendered as follows: He shall purify himself with it on the third day and on th…

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 shall purify himself with it
That is, with the ashes of the water of purification made of them: and this was to b…

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…