If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said Haggai,.... To the priests; having nothing to object to their answer; but being satisfied with it, he puts another question:
if one that is unclean by a dead body; by the touch of it, Num…
Ask now the priests concerning the law - The priests answer rightly, that, by the law, insulated unholiness spread further than insulated holiness. The flesh of the sacrifice hallowed whatever it…
This sermon was preached two months after that in the former part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We…
Cambridge Bible
If one bear Lit. Lo! one bears. "See, there is a man bearing what will happen?" An emphatic Oriental way of saying, "suppose, put the case, that one bears." So in Jer 3:1 we have, "Lo! a man puts away…
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