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Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
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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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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
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…
16th Century
Protestant
And whatever the unclean person touches. Others translate it as, “Whoever touches an unclean thing shall be unclean.”
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And whatsoever the unclean person touches shall be unclean , &c.] Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching …
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…
