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The Contagion of Sin
Commentators explain that this verse illustrates the contagious nature of sin. Just as ritual uncleanness from a corpse could spread through a simple touch, sin has an infectious and corrupting influence. John Calvin notes that holiness is not easily transferred, but defilement is. This law served as a powerful, tangible lesson on the need to avoid sin and those who persist in it.
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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 Calvin
On Numbers 19:22
16th Century
Theologian
And whatever the unclean person touches. Others translate it as, “Whoever touches an unclean thing shall be unclean.”
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John Gill
On Numbers 19:22
17th Century
Pastor
And whatsoever the unclean person touches shall be unclean ,
&c.] Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching …
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…