Leviticus 15

Of these washings there were various sorts or kinds under the Law. For the priests were washed (Exodus 29:4), and the Levites (Numbers 8:12), and the people after they had contracted any impurity (Leviticus 15:8, 16). But the Apostle seems to have particular respect to the washi…

[hating the garment spotted by the flesh] 'tis a figurative speech, some apply it to the avoiding of the appearance of evil; there is a story of Valentinian in Theodoret, who accompanying Julian the Apostate to the Temple of Fortune, and those that had charge of the house sprink…

35. That whoever sinned, together with his sacrifice he make Confession of his sin (Numbers 5:6, 7). 36. That involuntary pollution be cleansed by Sacrifice (Leviticus 15:13). 37. That women do so likewise in the case mentioned (Leviticus 15:28).

Answ. In such cases of necessity the body must be beaten down, and earnest prayer made for the gift of continence: for surely the Lord who has brought you to that necessity, will give you grace sufficient. 3. Against modesty, when husbands require this duty in that time, which u…

There is no part of him sound, —Totum pro vulnere corpus. The man who had his running issue in his flesh, Leviticus 15.2. was but a type of a sinner who has the plague-sores of sin running upon him, 1 Kings 8.38. Oh how ghastly and deformed is every Christless soul!