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Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 21:13

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Leviticus21:13

13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity .

Or, a Virgin, partly for the decency of the type, because as he was a type of Christ, so his wife was a type of the Church, which is compared to a Virgin, 2 Cor. 11. 2. Rev. 14. 4. and partly for greater caution and assurance that his wife was not a defiled or defloured person. This and the following rule belong not to all the Priests, for then this were a gross tautology, these same things or most of them being expresly forbidden to them ver. 7. but onely to the High-priest, to shew that he also and he especially is obliged to the same cautions.

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