Quotes about Defilement

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it. Not a single attribute would place him credibly in the revered circle of American presidential character and power.

Paul is not simply invoking a "cultic metaphor" alongside a "law court" metaphor, on the one hand, and a "slave market" metaphor, on the other. He is thinking of the restoration of true cult, true worship: the one God cleansing people from defilement so that the true meeting, the heart of the covenant, may take place at last.

Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.