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A Call to Sanctification
Leviticus 11:44 (KJV)
For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Robert Hawker writes in his Poor Man’s Commentary:
“One general observation will be all that is necessary to offer on the law concerning the clean and unclean among the fishes, the fowls, and the creeping things of the earth. The grand object intended from the whole is to show that we are all unclean by nature, and made clean only in CHRIST JESUS. This is the first and ultimate design of these laws, which were all intermediate and introductory, as leading to the LORD JESUS.”
I’ve been thinking about the little details in this chapter:
· You can eat this beast but not that one.
· You can eat this fish, but not that one.
· You can eat this bird, but not that one.
· You can eat this bug, but not that one.
· You can eat this animal if it does this and this, but not if it doesn’t do both.
We know, of course, that the laws regarding unclean animals are no longer in effect. Every food is to be eaten and…