This chapter is one for us to think seriously about, though it has only eight verses. It shows us that we are born sinners; not, as some would have us believe, that we only become sinners through being in bad company.
Here we learn that the little, helpless, new born babies need the shedding of blood, for it is true of them, as of us older ones, “Without shedding of blood is no remission.” Heb. 9:2222And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Hebrews 9:22).
Sweet and innocent looking little things, but they ate sinners, because their parents are sinners by nature, and so it has always been since Adam and Eve went out of the garden of Eden, and their first baby, Cain, was born.
Another lesson in this chapter is that God does not forget the past, for, as it seems, the reason why the mother was not to come into the holy place of the tabernacle for 80 days when a girl baby was born, (yet she was shut out only 40 days, if it was a boy baby) is, that Eve was the first to sin. (1 Tim, 2:14).
“God requireth that which is past.” Yes, He does! Have you ever thought of this seriously?
It was into a poor man’s home that the Lord Jesus was born, when He came down into this world to go through it as a man, and die for our sins. I am glad He did, are you?