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This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
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Death as a Symbol of Sin
Commentators explain that this law powerfully illustrates a core theological truth: death is the physical wage of sin. The defilement from a corpse served as a constant, tangible reminder of sin's polluting nature and its ultimate consequence. Matthew Henry notes that while the law highlighted this problem, it couldn't solve it, thus pointing forward to the gospel where Christ's sacrifice and the Holy Spirit's work provide true cleansing and victory over death.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Baptist
Think, dear friends, what a solemn and yet what an irksome ordinance this must have been! Why, according to this regulation, Joseph could not have …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This is the law when a man dieth in a tent A tent is only mentioned, because the Israelites now dwelt in tents, as A…
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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…