Chapter commentary
Leviticus Chapter 12
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Le 12:1-8.
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Le 12:1-8.
WOMAN'S UNCLEANNESS BY CHILDBIRTH.
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2. 若婦人等——生男孩的母親在禮儀上不潔七天，期滿孩子就行割禮
(Ge 17:12; Ro 4:11-13)；
生女孩的母親則為期兩週
(Le 12:5)
——這是對女性因罪而受的羞辱
(1Ti 2:14, 15)，
此羞辱已被基督除去；凡在這段期間挨近她的人，也都染上同樣的不潔。這些期限過後，訪客可以挨近她，但她仍被排除於宗教的公開典禮之外
[Le 12:4]。
English original
2. If a woman, &c.--The mother of a boy was ceremonially unclean for a week, at the end of which the child was circumcised
(Ge 17:12; Ro 4:11-13);
the mother of a girl for two weeks
(Le 12:5)
--a stigma on the sex
(1Ti 2:14, 15)
for sin, which was removed by Christ; everyone who came near her during that time contracted a similar defilement. After these periods, visitors might approach her though she was still excluded from the public ordinances of religion
[Le 12:4].
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6-8. 她潔淨的日子——雖然這場合帶有節慶性質，但所定的祭並非平安祭，而是燔祭和贖罪祭，為要使父母的心想起罪的起源，並記念孩子承襲了墮落而有罪的本性。這些祭要在她隔離期滿的次日獻上——即生男孩第四十一天，生女孩第八十一天。
English original
6-8. the days of her purifying--Though the occasion was of a festive character, yet the sacrifices appointed were not a peace offering, but a burnt offering and sin offering, in order to impress the mind of the parent with recollections of the origin of sin, and that the child inherited a fallen and sinful nature. The offerings were to be presented the day after the period of her separation had ended--that is, forty-first for a boy, eighty-first for a girl.
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8. 把兩隻斑鳩等——（參
Le 5:6 的註釋）。
這就是耶穌的母親馬利亞所獻的祭，這便確鑿地證明了那家庭的貧窮和卑微
(Lu 2:22-24)。
English original
8. bring two turtles, &c.--(See on
Le 5:6).
This was the offering made by Mary, the mother of Jesus, and it affords an incontestable proof of the poor and humble condition of the family
(Lu 2:22-24).
Le 12:1-8.
婦人因生育而成不潔