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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…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
19th Century
Anglican
19th Century
of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin. —Better, of the ashes of the burnt sin-offering; literally,
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
19th Century
Baptist
19th Century
This ordinance was partly sanitary. The Egyptians were accustomed to keep their dead in their houses, preserved as mummies. No Jew could do that, b…
John Gill
JohnGill
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century
And for an unclean person
Defiled by any of the above means:
they shall take of the ashes of the …
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century
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…
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Albert Barnes
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