Ver. 2. If a woman have conceived seed.] Or yielded seed, as Genesis 1:11. Urgendum hoc adversus Anabaptistas; qui, ut suos de humanae Christi naturae origine errores stabiliant, faeminas semen habere praefracte negant. Hebraeorum magistri, ex eodem loco, (Genesis 1:11,12) colligunt marem edi quoties mulier semen mittere prior coeperit; foeminam, ubi vir. Then she shall be unclean.] This signified that corruption of man’s nature wherein he is conceived, (Psalms 51:5) being condemned as soon as conceived, Damnatus antequam natus, and the remedy we have in Christ. Amama, Antibarbar, 575. Gatak. cont. Pfochen. Augustine.
Ver. 3. And in the eighth day.] [See Trapp on “Ge 17:13”] [See Trapp on “Ge 17:14”]
Ver. 4. She shall touch no hallowed thing.] Preparation must go before participation of holy ordinances. (Haggai 2:13)
Ver. 5. But if she bear a maid child.] To intimate, it may be, the woman’s being first in the transgression. (1 Timothy 2:14)
Ver. 6. And when the days of her purifying.] The Virgin Mary also observed this law, (Luke 2:21) not in conscience of any particular sin, which in the conception of our Saviour she was free from; nor in show, to satisfy the law, much less upon hypocrisy; but in conscience of her natural corruption, which by this oblation, according to the law, she did confess holily and religiously before God and his congregation, as one well observeth.
Ver. 7. And make an atonement.] Whereby her faith was confirmed, that by Christ her sin was remitted and the curse removed. (1 Timothy 2:15)
Ver. 8. And if she be not able.] As the blessed Virgin was not. (Luke 2:22,24) Who now can despise any one for want, when the mother of our Lord was not rich enough to bring a lamb for her purification? We may be as happy in russet, as in tissue. A coarse homespun woollen cloth of a reddish-brown, grey or neutral colour, formerly used for the dress of peasants and country folk