Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 19:7

7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even .

Partly to teach us the imperfection of the Levitical Priesthood, in which the Priest himself was defiled by some parts of his work, and the absolute necessity of a better and hosier Priesthood; and partly to shew that Christ himself, though he had no sin of his own, yet was reputed by men and iudged by God, as an unclean and sinful person, by reason of our sins which were laid upon him, [illegible: 1 word]. 53. 12. 2 Cor. 5. 21.