Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.
This is concerning the ceremonial uncleanness which women lay under from their issues, both those that were regular and healthful, and according to the course of nature (Lev 15:19-24), and those that were unseasonable, excessive, and the disease of the body; such was the bloody issue of that poor woman who was suddenly cured by touching the hem of Christ's garment, after she had lain...
Commenting on Leviticus 15:19-33
And if any man lie with her at all,.... Not presumptuously but ignorantly, as Aben Ezra observes; for he was guilty of cutting off, that lay with her wilfully, Lev 20:18, and her flowers be upon her; or, "her separation" (k), her monthly courses not being ceased: he shall be unclean seven days; and be excluded from all conversation civil and religious: and all the...
UNCLEANNESS OF WOMEN. (Lev 15:19-33) if a woman have an issue--Though this, like the leprosy, might be a natural affection, it was anciently considered contagious and entailed a ceremonial defilement which typified a moral impurity. This ceremonial defilement had to be removed by an appointed method of ceremonial expiation, and the neglect of it subjected any one to the guilt of defiling the tabernacle, and...
Commenting on Leviticus 15:19-33