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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 15:1-33

Chapter fifteen is a strange and solemn one in many ways, dealing as it does with the law of uncleanness as it applies to the question of issues. As in the case of the laws concerning childbirth, here the mind is once more brought face to face with dread and forceful solemnity to the fact of the defilement of the race. A careful perusal of these requirements reminds us that the procreative faculties are all underneath the curse as the result of race pollution. Whether the exercise of such... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:31-33

Final Summary (Leviticus 15:31-33 ). Leviticus 15:31 “Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.” The purpose of these laws was in order to continually separate the people of Israel from their uncleanness. God wanted them to be as wholly clean as possible, given the limitations. They were also in order to prevent Israel defiling the tabernacle by anyone from the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:1-33

Leviticus 15. Issues.— Four kinds are considered; the first of these ( Leviticus 15:1-Ezra :) is apparently pathological, though there is no reference to venereal diseases, which are unknown in the OT; the second ( Leviticus 15:16-Job :) normal; the third ( Leviticus 15:19-Jeremiah :), normal and periodic; the fourth (2 Leviticus 15:5-Amos :), an abnormal occurrence or prolongation of the normal. Whether normal or not, all these occurrences are regarded as causing “ taboos” in ethnic... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:31-33

Leviticus 15:31-Micah : . Conclusion.— These five chapters, and espe cially the last, throw a strong light on the conception of sin in P. Sin is not an act, but a condition. The sacrifices prescribed for it are not punishments, nor even methods of escape, but means by which, the abnormal conditions gone, the functions of the normal can be safely resumed. But the connexion of the abnormal, as well as the strictly pathological, with a sense of sin and guilt, is a truth familiar to psychology,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 15:1-33

Secret Physical ImpuritiesSUGGESTIVE READINGSSecret impurities, whether of men or women, are carefully discriminated here as resulting from guilty sexual intercourse, and as the effect of natural infirmity. God has stern thoughts for the licentious, He brands him as polluted and polluting, and interdicts from all privileges those who have become basely defiled.Yet even where no moral vileness attaches to the uncleanness, where the impurity is the consequence of physical weakness and natural... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:1-33

Chapter 15Now as we get into the fifteenth chapter God deals with sort of a boil kind of a thing or any breaking out on your body, any kind of a running sore that a person might have. That he is unclean and the whole thing has now to do with hygienic principles. How that anything that he wears that touches it is unclean. And the various washing processes that they need to go through until this running sore, sort of a staff infection, is healed completely. It is interesting that these laws of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 15:1-33

Leviticus 15:2. Running issue. The holy scriptures speak modestly of obscene things. It is a kind of gonorrhea, occasioned by whoredom, or by lascivious habits. How strikingly is the providence of God displayed in deterring the wicked from profligacy, by this most dreadful disease of rottenness in the bones: and if he so afflict the body, what punishment is that which awaits the soul. Leviticus 15:16-18 . This accident happening to a man in a dream, whether sleeping alone or with his... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 15:2-33

Leviticus 15:2-33Because of his issue he is unclean. Human nature unclean1. We learn, in a very striking manner, the intense holiness of the Divine presence. Not a soil, not a stain, not a speck can be tolerated for a moment in that thrice-hallowed region.2. Again, we learn that human nature is the ever-flowing fountain of uncleanness. It is hopelessly defiled and defiling.3. Finally, we learn, afresh, the expiatory value of the blood of Christ, and the cleansing, sanctifying virtues of the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Leviticus 15:33

of her: Leviticus 15:19-Amos : and of him: Leviticus 15:24, Leviticus 20:18 Reciprocal: Numbers 5:29 - the law Numbers 30:16 - General Numbers 36:13 - the commandments read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:19-33

THE UNCLEANNESS OF WOMEN IN THEIR ISSUES, Leviticus 15:19-33. The separation of the woman during the menstrual period is so obviously a sanitary requirement that the custom was not confined to the Hebrews. read more

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