The Student's Bible; For Schools, Colleges and Classes

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Notes. 11:1-47. Clean and unclean animals. There are two marks of difference between the clean and the unclean animals used in sacrifices and for food. The cloven-hoof marks the slow moving, tame animal, easily domesticated. The single-hoofed animal is wild and difficult of domestication. The other characteristic of the clean animal is the chewing of the cud. This marks the ruminating, quiet, dispassionate animal from the carnivorous beasts of prey, and the unclean omnivorous animals. We find, therefore, something in the very nature of these animals indicative of the choice which God made. All commands to holiness rested on this declaration, For I am the Lord, your God, .... / am holy. The violation of the laws of purity were two-fold: (1) The open disobedience of God's expressed will; (2) The contamination from contact with the unclean. Through sacrifice Israel is made holy; i. e., they become, in the fellowship of the true God, a people of personal dignity, belonging to God Clean men must be circumcised, sanctified by the symbol of circumcision to the new birth under the power of Jehovah and thus especially taken out from the confusion of the unclean world Cleanliness is the negative side of holiness, and so purification is the negative side of sanctification.--Lange. Leading Truths. 13:45, 46.--And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall pat a covering upon his lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he shall be unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. Leprosy The Type Of S1n. All sickness, in a general way, is regarded in the Holy Scriptures as a fitting symbol of sin, inasmuch as all disease is a forerun...