Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 12:1-2
2. She shall be unclean It is a mystery that marriage, a sacrament of love, prefiguring the oneness of Christ and the Church, should attain its divinely appointed end only by entailing ceremonial impurity. But nothing more impressively teaches the depravity of the human race than the early announcement that both conception (Leviticus 15:16-18) and birth are inevitably attended by pollutions which imperatively demand purgation before the person of the parent can be acceptable to the holy... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Leviticus 12:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,From uncleanness contracted by the touching or eating of external things, he now comes to that uncleanness which ariseth from ourselves. read more