Israel's past history and the principles which it illustrates

17. When in their own land the people defiled it with their doings. The land was "holy" being sanctified by Jehovah's presence in it. The sins of the people, idolatry and bloodshed, desecrated it and made it unclean. Holy embraces "clean" under it, as the general does a particular, Jeremiah 2:7; Leviticus 18:25. Ezek., however, seems to call all sins "uncleanness." This way of speaking and thinking could hardly have arisen except under the influence of a law of ceremonial defilements (which were realdefilements) and purifications.

uncleanness of a removed the uncleanness of a woman's impurity. Leviticus 15:19. The comparison expresses the extreme of loathing, ch. Ezekiel 7:20.

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