This exclusion was enforced in the case of persons whose hands were defiled with bloodshed.
The purity of the Gospel might have been defiled.
Tegan bit her lip, feeling uncertain, somehow defiled.
In the last of these he maintains that children who die unbaptized must be lost, the pure soul being defiled by the grossness of the body, and declares that God's will is not to be questioned.
This he found to be defiled with filth, spread upon it by the Christians in despite of the Jews.