NUMBERS CHAPTER 19 The manner of making the water of separation, and of what, NUMBERS 19:1. The use of it, wherewith the unclean are to be purged, NUMBERS 19:11. Laws concerning despisers of cleansing, NUMBERS 19:14. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ORDINANCE OF THE LAW, OR, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LAW, i.e. that which God hath ordained or established by law. THAT THEY BRING THEE, at their common charge, because it was for the common good. _Red_; a fit colour to shadow forth both the bloody nature and complexion of sin, ISAIAH 1:8, and the... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO ELEAZAR, who was the second priest, and, in some cases, the vicegerent or deputy of the high priest. To him, not to Aaron, because this service made him unclean for a season, NUMBERS 19:7, and consequently unfit for holy ministrations; whereas the high priest was, as far as possibly he could, t... [ Continue Reading ]
DIRECTLY BEFORE THE TABERNACLE, or, _towards or over against the tabernacle_; either, 1. Near to it; and so we must suppose that he took some of the blood in a basin, and carried it from without the camp to the tabernacle, and then returned to this place again; which might be done, though it be not... [ Continue Reading ]
To signify the sharp and grievous sufferings of Christ for our sins. HER BLOOD; all of it but what was spent in sprinkling.... [ Continue Reading ]
All which are here burnt, and as it were offered to God, that they might be sanctified to this holy use for the future; for of these kinds of things was the sprinkle made wherewith the unclean were sprinkled, LEVITICUS 14:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Partly to teach us the imperfection of the Levitical priesthood, in which the priest himself was defiled by some parts of his work, and the absolute necessity of a better and holier priesthood; and partly to show that Christ himself, though he had no sin of his own, yet was reputed by men, and judge... [ Continue Reading ]
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FOR THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, i.e. for their use, and therefore in a fit place or places, whence any of them might easily procure it. FOR A WATER, or, _to the water_, i.e. to be put to the water, or mixed with it. OF SEPARATION, i.e. appointed for the cleansing of them that are in... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH, to wit, a proselyte, not any stranger, as some understand it. For since it is confessed all the other ceremonial laws do not oblige them, and that where the name of stranger is put, as here it is, it generally speaks of a proselyte, it is more reasonable to take it so h... [ Continue Reading ]
Whereas the touch of a dead beast made a man unclean only till even, LEVITICUS 11:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH IT, i.e. with the water of separation. ON THE THIRD DAY, to typify Christ's resurrection on that day, by which we are cleansed or sanctified. ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE SHALL BE CLEAN, to teach us that our purification in this life is gradual, and not perfect till we come to that eternal sabbath, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH, to wit, if this transgression be done presumptuously; for if it was done ignorantly, he was only to offer sacrifice, LEVITICUS 5:3,6,17. DEFILETH THE TABERNACLE OF THE LORD, by approaching to it in his uncleanness; for holy things or places were ceremonially defiled with the touc... [ Continue Reading ]
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EVERY OPEN VESSEL, because it receives the air of the tent, by which it is ceremonially polluted. Compare LEVITICUS 11:32,33.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH A SWORD, or by any other violent way.... [ Continue Reading ]
RUNNING WATER, i.e, waters flowing from a spring or river which are the purest. These manifestly signify God's Spirit, which is oft compared to water, 1 THESSALONIANS 7:38,39, and by which alone true purification is obtained. IN A VESSEL, where they were to be mixed, and then the water was to be str... [ Continue Reading ]
A CLEAN PERSON, to wit, a priest; for to such the work of cleansing was appropriated. See LE 13 $. UPON ALL THE VESSELS; even those which were in part purified by the fire. See NUMBERS 31:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
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SHALL NOT PURIFY HIMSELF, i.e, shall contemptuously refuse to submit to this way of purification.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL WASH HIS CLOTHES, because he is unclean, as it here follows. It is strange that the same water should cleanse one person, and defile another; but God would have it so, partly, to teach us that it did not cleanse by any virtue in itself, or in the work done, but only by virtue of God's appointm... [ Continue Reading ]
THE UNCLEAN PERSON; not he who is so only by touching the water of separation, NUMBERS 19:21, but he who is so by the greater sort of uncleanness, which lasted seven days, of which NUMBERS 19:11,16, and which was not removed without the use of this water of purification, as is manifest from the cont... [ Continue Reading ]