Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 11:44

44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctifie your selves, and ye shall be holy for I am holy: neither shall ye defile your selves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

By which he gives them to understand, that all these cautions and prohibitions about the eating or touching of these creatures was not for any real uncleanness in them, all being Gods good creatures, but onely that by the diligent observation of these rules they might learn with greater care to avoid all moral pollutions, and to keep themselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and particularly from all familiar and intimate converse with notorious sinners.

Marginal references: chap. 19. 2. and 20. 7. [illegible: 1 word] 1. 15, 16.