Leviticus 12 - Introduction
_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ Laws concerning the uncleanness of women in child-birth, Leviticus 12:1. Concerning their purification, Leviticus 12:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ Laws concerning the uncleanness of women in child-birth, Leviticus 12:1. Concerning their purification, Leviticus 12:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
From uncleanness contracted by the touching or eating of external things, he now comes to that uncleanness which ariseth from ourselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seven days_ Not for any filthiness which was either in the conception, or in bringing forth, but to signify the universal and deep pollution of man's nature, even from the birth, and from the conception. Seven days, or thereabouts, nature is employed in the purgation of most women. _Her infirmity_... [ Continue Reading ]
_In the blood of her purifying_ In her polluted and separated estate; for the word _blood_, or _bloods_, signifies both guilt and uncleanness, as here and elsewhere. And it is called _the blood of her purifying_, because by the expulsion or purgation of that blood, which is done by degrees, she is p... [ Continue Reading ]
_Threescore and six days_ The time in both particulars is double to the former; the law, as some think, being adapted to a received opinion that women are sooner purified after the birth of males than of females; an opinion which, however questioned, Grotius shows to be supported by no less authorit... [ Continue Reading ]
_For a son or a daughter_ For the birth of either; but the purification was for herself, as appears from the following verses. _A sin- offering_ Because of her ceremonial uncleanness, which required a ceremonial expiation.... [ Continue Reading ]
The morality of this law obliges women who have received mercies from God in child-bearing, with all thankfulness to acknowledge his goodness to them, owning themselves unworthy of it, and (which is the best purification) to _continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety._... [ Continue Reading ]