Verse 7
7. Unclean for his father He could not enter the house where his father lay dead. The omission of the wife in the list of near relatives would seem to permit the Nazarite to bury his wife. Others interpret Numbers 6:6 as excluding him from her funeral except by breaking his vow, contracting ceremonial defilement during seven days, and beginning his vow anew.
The consecration of his God R.V., “Separation unto his God.” In Exodus 29:6, and Leviticus 21:12, we have the Hebrew nezer, crown. This is its import here, “the diadem of his God upon his head.” As the golden crown upon the turban of the high priest, and the oil of consecration poured upon the priestly head, so the luxuriant growth of the Nazarite’s hair expressed in a similar manner the fact of his consecration to the service of Jehovah and subjection to his authority. To this St. Paul alludes in 1 Corinthians 11:7. The application of the word nezer, crown, to the Nazarite is a figure called assonance, a rhetorical beauty especially frequent in Isaiah.
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