5And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
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And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here, I. It is supposed that the plague of the leprosy was not an incurable disease. Uzziah’s indeed continued to the day of his death, and Gehazi’s was entailed upon his seed; but Miriam’s lasted only seven days: we may suppose that it often wore off in process of time. Though God contend long, he will not contend for ever . II. The judgment of the cure, as well as that of the disease, was referr…
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