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be, to avoid coming within the danger of being infected by it. Touch not the unclean thing, saith the Lord, and I will receive you, 2Co 6:17.
55 and for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house, 56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: 57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law
of leprosy.
Leviticus-15
Unclean Discharges from the Body
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, when any
man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
We have here the law concerning the ceremonial uncleanness that was contracted by running issues in men. It is called in the margin (Le 15:2) the running of the reins: a very grievous and loathsome disease, which was, usually the effect and consequent of wantonness and uncleanness, and a dissolute course of life, filling men's bones with the sins of their youth, and leaving them to mourn at the last, when all the pleasures of their wickedness have vanished, and nothing remains but the pain and anguish of a rotten carcase and a wounded conscience. And what fruit has the sinner then of those things whereof he has so much reason to be ashamed? Ro 6:21.
As modesty is an ornament of grace to the head and chains about the neck, so chastity is health to the navel and marrow to the bones; but uncleanness is a wound and dishonour, the consumption of the flesh and the body, and a sin which is often its own punishment more than any other. It was also sometimes inflicted by the righteous hand of God for other sins, as appears by David's imprecation of a curse upon the