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Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 23:10

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Deuteronomy23:10

10 If there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night , then shall he go abroad out of the camp , he shall not come within the camp.

Of which see Levit. 25. 4, 16, 17. or by uncleanness of any like kind, one kind being here, as oft put for all.

Qu. Why doth this uncleanness oblige a man to go out of the Camp, when it did not oblige him to such a removal, Levit. 15? A[illegible: 1+ letters] 1. It is not unreasonable if they were obliged to greater strictness and purity when they were undertaking so difficult and dangerous a work. 2. There is a manifest reason of the difference, because in their houses they had private Chambers, where they could in such cases keep themselves from converse with others, whereas in the Camp their conveniencies were so small▪ and their occasions of action so many, that it was very hard for his fellow-Souldiers that continued with him in the same Tent or part of the Camp to avoid the touching of him, which yet was infectious, Levit. 15. 7, 22.

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