47To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. …
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. …
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-47)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. They must hereby learn to put a difference between good and evil, and to reckon that it could not be all alike what they…
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