2 Speak
unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a
man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the
separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
3 And in
the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
4 And she
shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she
shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of
her purifying be fulfilled. (Lev. 12:2-4)
If we look at these verses only through the lens of
equality of the sexes we may think it unfair to pronounce a woman unclean for
bearing a child. But if we look at
it as a type of Christ, we may appreciate it better.
Christ is the means by which we are to be “born again,” so the
newborn represents the born-again soul.
Just as the innocent Christ takes the sins of the soul that is born
again, the innocent mother submits to be considered ceremonially unclean for a
certain period.
Though we don’t know how much pain Christ went through to
deliver us all from sin, the Lord must have thought that associating it with childbirth
and delivery pains would help women understand it better. I think this shows His concern for
faithful women and it suggests that He really does know what women go through.
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