Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Numbers 5:2

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put out of the camp: The camp of Israel being now formed, with the sanctuary of God in the centre, orders were given that the lepers and unclean persons should be excluded from the camp, according to the laws given at different times on these subjects. (See the marginal references.) This expulsion was founded: 1\. On a purely physical reason; for the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted with them apart, that the infection might not be communicated. 2\. There was also a spiritual reason. the camp was the habitation of God; and therefore, in honour of Him who had thus condescended to dwell with them, nothing impure should be permitted to remain. 3\. Further, there was a typical reason; for the camp was the emblem of the church, where nothing that is defiled should enter, and in which nothing that is unholy should be tolerated. Num 12:14; Lev 13:46; Deu 24:8, Deu 24:9; Kg2 7:3 and every: Lev. 15:2-27 and whosoever: Num 9:6-10, Num 19:11-16, Num 31:19; Lev 21:1 Numbers 5:3

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