Clean & Unclean Animals

The distinction between clean and unclean animals.

How ought we to interpret and understand this chapter?

What is the rational behind these commands?

• The clean were already part of their diet (accommodation to his people)
• Unclean animals tend to break away from a certain normal pattern of their kind (wholesomeness in general picturing moral wholesomeness [Lev. 21:16-20])
• The unclean animals do things that if an Israelite would do it they would be unclean (they do defiling things, they were a picture of ritual defilement)

What does this have to do with a New Testament Christian?

• Discontinuity [Mark 7:14-16]
• Continuity [2 Corinthians 6:14-18]