Week 3: Clean and Unclean

Objective: 

• Focus is on the purity of the flesh

• These became the main issues and debates among scribes and Pharisees, and the Lord Jesus Christ rebuked them for it

• Cleanness and uncleanness are related to holiness

• Clean and unclean divided Jews and Gentiles (most important)

• Clean and unclean was the first issue that needed solving by the Church (Acts 10-11)

Resources:

• Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary
• Catena Bible Commentary

Reading:

• Leviticus 11-15
  • Leviticus 11:1-20, 44-47
  • Leviticus 12 & 15:1-3, 13-16, 29-30  (together)

Key verse(s):

"Wh

Comments:

• Leviticus 11 (Animals)
  • Why is one clean and another not?
  • Many unclean animals (e.g. pigs) were used in pagan ritual and worship
  • Symbolic that man should imitate God
  • Sovereign Choice
  • This idea existed in Genesis
    • Noah took 2 of every unclean and 7 of every clean animal
  • The Lord Jesus taught the true meaning of cleanness and uncleanness (Read Mark 15:11 & Mark 15:17-20)
  • The idea was abolished in Acts 11
    • “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”–“What God has cleansed you must not call common"
• Leviticus 12&15 (Bodily discharges)

Review/recap questions:
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Homework:
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