And every open vessel, which has no covering fastened upon it, is unclean.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cover. Samaritan, "neither chains nor bands. "Formerly boxes were tied down. (Homer, Odyssey viii.) If the covering of any hollow vessel was off, when a corpse was present, it became unclean. (Calmet)
The cover of a vessel, or a seal, is the control of discipline. Discipline keeps a man from being overwhelmed, as if he were an unclean or polluted vessel that is rejected. For a vessel without a cover or a seal is spoiled, like as in the case of one who devotes himself to ostentation and is not covered by any veil of silence. Exposition of the Old and New Testament, Numbers
