And insofar as it is said in Scripture, and their carcases ye shall not touch (Lev. 11:18; Deut. 14:8), this applies only to the duration of the feast. Even if a man becomes unclean, he does not become liable to punishment by scourging. But about other days of the year not even a warning has been given.3 This enables us to understand an instance of uncleanness, although the word is not used, in one of our Lord’s Parables, the parable of the marriage feast (Matt. 22:1–14). One guest arrived in his
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