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This shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
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A Symbol of Inner Corruption
Commentator John Gill explains that the physical uncleanness described is an “emblem of the corruption and vitiosity of nature.” Whether the discharge was flowing or blocked, the person was unclean. This serves as a physical picture of the spiritual reality that sin flows from the human heart, defiling a person from the inside out.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
Whether his flesh run. —This verse defines more minutely the statement in the preceding verse.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue Or the sign of it, by which it may be judged whether he is unclean by…
Presbyterian
We need not be overly meticulous in explaining these laws; but we have reason to be thankful that we need fear no defilement, except that of sin, n…
