The principle that death and all pertaining to it, as being the manifestation and result of sin Genesis 2:17, are defiling, and so lead to interruption of the living relationship between God and His people, is not now introduced for the first time, nor is it at all peculiar to the Mosaic law. It was... [ Continue Reading ]
A RED HEIFER - Red, in order to shadow forth man’s earthly body, even as the name Adam bears allusion to the red earth of which man’s body was fashioned. WITHOUT SPOT, WHEREIN IS NO BLEMISH - As with sin-offerings generally Leviticus 4:3. UPON WHICH NEVER CAME YOKE - So here and elsewhere (see the... [ Continue Reading ]
The work would necessarily require a priest; yet as it rendered him unclean for the day Numbers 19:22, the high priest was relieved from performing it. WITHOUT THE CAMP - The defilement was viewed as transferred to the victim that was to be offered for its removal. Under these circumstances the vict... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare Leviticus 14:4 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
WATER OF SEPARATION - In Numbers 8:7, the water of purification from sin is the “water of purifying.” So that which was to remedy a state of legal separation is here called “water of separation.”... [ Continue Reading ]
He that gathered the ashes became equally unclean with the others. For the defilement of the people, previously transferred to the heifer, was regarded as concentrated in the ashes.... [ Continue Reading ]
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal to be devoured by the wild beasts.... [ Continue Reading ]