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The Paradox of Purification
Commentators note a paradox in this verse: the very water that purifies an unclean person makes the clean person who administers it unclean. John Gill suggests this highlights the imperfection of the Old Testament rituals and, more profoundly, points to the work of Jesus. Christ's cleansing blood is effective precisely because He was 'made sin for us,' taking on defilement to make us clean.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 19:11–22
18th Century
Theologian
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 Spurgeon
On Numbers 19:17–22
19th Century
Preacher
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
On Numbers 19:21
17th Century
Pastor
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them
To the children of Israel, throughout their generations, until the com…
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 19:11–22
17th Century
Minister
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…