Then said Haggai, If [one that is] unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Ver. 13. If one that is unclean by a dead body] With a ceremonial uncleanness. The Hebrew hath it thus, If one that is unclean in soul, that is, in his whole person, as every wicked man is totus totus pollutus, wholly covered with corruption, a loathsome leper from head to foot, wholly set upon sin, as Exodus 32:22, lying down in wickedness, or in that wicked one, 1 John 5:19, sick of such a disease as the physicians call corruptionem totius substantiae, nay, dead in sins and trespasses, Ephesians 2:1; and can therefore do no better than dead work at best, Hebrews 9:14, such as the living God will not be served with. See Trapp on " Mal 3:16 " doct. 4, use 1. He is unclean, unclean, and impureth all that he toucheth, according to that which followeth.