Now the second case is proposed for resolution, &c.
If one that is unclean; ceremonially or legally polluted, and unclean.
By a dead body; for such touch, though at unawares, did pollute, Num_19:13.
Touch any of these; bread or pottage, wine, or oil, or meat.
Shall it be unclean? shall that which the unclean (by touch of the dead) doth touch become unclean, or no? Though a mediate touch of what is holy will not make holy, yet will not a mediate touch of what is polluted defile whatsoever it toucheth?
It shall be unclean; it is resolved affirmatively, It shall be polluted.