Such men, befooled by endless vain conceits, Caught in the meshes of the world’s illusion, Immersed in sensuality, descend Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.
He who mixes with unclean things becomes unclean himself; he whose associations are pure becomes purer each day.
A room that contains unclean articles in drawers or closets, unclean floors, unclean rugs and hangings and unclean walls, should not be tolerated for an instant.
My chief source of doubt with respect to any such inheritance, is that senseless customs, superstitions, and tastes, such as the horror of a Hindoo for unclean food, ought on the same principle to be transmitted.
It would be difficult to distinguish between the remorse felt by a Hindoo who has eaten unclean food, from that felt after committing a theft; but the former would probably be the more severe.
Walsingham says the distress was worst in the north, where, he heard, 'the people ate dogs and horses and other unclean animals.
Fordun says there was famine in Scotland this year, many being reduced 'to feed on the flesh of horses and other unclean cattle.
But with daybreak there came again the silent shadow, the smell of the unclean thing, and again with fierce beak and talons the vulture greedily began its work.
Again there were only trampled and blood-stained rushes, with the loathsome smell of unclean flesh.
M211 But the rule which excludes orphans from certain sacred offices cannot be based on a theory that they are ceremonially unclean through the death of their parents.
Again, in the Greek island of Ceos persons who had offered the annual sacrifices to their departed friends wereunclean for two days afterwards and might not enter a sanctuary; they had to purify themselves with water.
Thus, for example, if one of the sacred eunuchs at Hierapolis-Bambyce saw the dead body of a stranger, he was unclean for that day and might not enter the sanctuary of the goddess; but next day after purifying himself he was free to enter.
But if the corpse happened to be that of a relation he was unclean for thirty days and had to shave his head before he might set foot within the holy precinct.
I despise the earth," he writes, "this unclean world, these men and their works.
And I can testify from my own experience that it is at the very time of renunciation and self-discipline that one is most liable to unclean thoughts and imaginations.
Perhaps better, keep aloof, by vow and ban, from unrighteous, unclean gain.
The sect sees in these stricter distinctions between clean and unclean the superiority of its ordinances over those of other Jews, whom they regard as sinfully lax.
Even to-day Jewish writers ascribe them to the evil effect which bad food has upon the soul, either by infecting it with the characteristics of the unclean beasts, or by rendering it impenetrable to good influences.
Further, the nations of antiquity which developed such categories of clean and unclean animals seem in the main to have taken the same line.
Every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be homeborn or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
The ground of this probably is the natural disgust with whichunclean feeders are always regarded.
All this seems to show that a natural sentiment of disgust, for whatever reason felt, was active in the selection of the animals marked unclean by men of every race.
The Jbâla of Northern Morocco do not nowadays believe in ghosts, yet they regard a person who has shed human blood to be in some degree unclean for the rest of his life.
Among the Hebrews both the man and woman had to bathe themselves in water, and were "unclean until the even.
So also a sacred act is believed to lose its sacredness by being performed by an unclean individual.
Moreover, unclean individuals are not only a danger to others, but are themselves in danger.
The Moors believe that if anybody who is sexually unclean enters a granary the grain will lose its baraka, or holiness.
Where woman is regarded as an unclean being[119] it is obvious that intercourse with her should be considered polluting, but this is not a sufficient explanation of the idea of sexual uncleanness.
So also the Californian Indians, whilst exceedingly fond of bathing, are unclean about their lodges and clothing.
The possessed are represented as dwelling among the tombs, and being driven by unclean spirits into the wilderness, and the demons can find no rest in clean places.
Besides these there is the parable of the unclean spirit going out of the man above alluded to, who, when he could find no rest returned to his former habitation in company with seven other spirits more wicked than himself.
The possessed are represented as dwelling among the tombs, and as being driven by unclean spirits into the wilderness, and demons can find no rest in clean places.
And Utanka thereupon rejoined, 'It behoveth thee not, after having offered meunclean food, to curse me in return.
And Paushya seeing the food alleged to be uncleansatisfied himself of its uncleanliness.
Mac 1:62 Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.
Sir 40:15 The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.
According to the proclamation, no man shall approach the holy ground with unclean hands.
They get hold of facts by the wrong end; they cut into the middle of a chain, and look upon the woman as the aggressor, and contemplate her as an uncleanbird of prey.
And yet it is this evil, so pervasive in its influence, so certain to taint the fresh springs of young life with impure knowledge, if not to foul them with unclean acts, that parents still too often elect to ignore.
Its only result was to give them an added tenderness for their mother, and to make them resent all suchunclean talk as so much mud flung at her.
Evidently the boys had considered it too sacred a thing to talk about--how much too sacred, then, to allow of their joining in with the unclean gossip of schoolboys!
On past the sunken beach Of unclean ooze, the sea of gathered slime, Across the hunching boulders, where the course Of huddled waters broke their angry force.
My London Garden, 1914 My Garden is a tiny square Of bordered green And gravel brown In misty town, And chimneys smoky and unclean Sweep to the sky.
Then the Brahmin was frightened, threw down the goat, and walked home to perform his ablutions for having touched an unclean animal.
The dog, to which, with all his sagacity and faithfulness something unclean and impure clings, as Grimm well observes, plays no very prominent part in these Tales.
Now go, you lying spawn of unclean toads--go and tell your father that I, Norhala, am at his gates.
The black talons of Yuruk stretched around his throat "Son of unclean dogs!
The Latookas are remarkably clean in their towns, and nothing unclean is permitted within the stockade or fence.
The Obbo people were delighted, as it was their favourite game, but none of my people would touch the unclean animal.
And this the mass of Israel have done, clinging, fanatical and self-satisfied, to their unclean and morbid imaginations of the Divine, all the time that My great prophecy by you has been appealing to them.
The banished people are thoroughly unclean and rotten, fading as a leaf, the sport of the wind.
Our surgery was most discouraging, because there were so many deaths in the uncleanhospital conditions.
They bear for Christ's sake such unclean and almost intolerable things, that I do not think any other can be compared to this martyrdom, holy and precious in the sight of God.
They are not only considered unclean themselves, but they render uncleanevery thing they touch.
