This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
Here is, I. The exposition of this law, or a key to let us into the meaning of it. It was not intended merely for a bill of fare, or as the directions of a physician about their diet, but God would hereby teach them to sanctify themselves and to be holy, Lev 11:44. That is, 1.
Commenting on Leviticus 11:43-47
This is the law of the beasts,.... Clean and unclean, what were to be eaten, and what not, and of the fowl; Lev 11:2 the unclean ones, which are particularly mentioned that they might be avoided, all others excepting them being allowed:, Lev 11:13.
Lev 11:46-47 Lev 11:46, Lev 11:47 contain the concluding formula to the whole of this law. If we take a survey, in closing, of the animals that are enumerated as unclean and not suitable for food, we shall find that among the larger land animals they were chiefly beasts of prey, that seize upon other living creatures and devour them in their blood; among the...
Commenting on Leviticus 11:46-47