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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:10-32
The cleansing of the leper-ceremony in the tabernacle. The ceremonies for the cleansing of the leper were distributed into two series. The first were conducted "outside the camp." This suggests that the leper must be ta…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:10-20
Final rites of readmission. By the series of final rites of restoration recorded in these verses, the leper once more took his place as one of a holy nation admitted to the presence of God: he was "presented before the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:12
The log of oil, amounting to something more than half a pint, is waved by the priest, together with the lamb for the trespass offering, as a wave offering before the Lord, in order that a special consecration may be giv…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:14
And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed. The Mishna describes the ceremony as follows:??The leper sta…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:15-18
And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. This ceremony is altogether peculiar to this purification. The joint use of blood and oil is not singular (see Le Levitic…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:21-32
And if he be poor, and cannot get so much. The concession to poverty consists in the substitution of two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, for the two lambs required for the sin offering and the burnt offering, and one…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:21-32
Divine considerateness. If there had been one parenthetical verso introduced or added intimating that Divine allowance would be made for the poor, we should have thought that sufficient for the purpose. But we have more…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:33-53
Cleansing the corrupt house. That the Divine Lawgiver should, in this tabernacle period of Israel's history, anticipate a time when their future houses would be affected by some disorder similar to leprosy in the human…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:33-57
EXPOSITION THE LEPROSY OF A HOUSE, AND ITS CLEANSING (Leviticus 14:33-53). The subject of leprosy in houses must be regarded from the same point of view as that of leprosy in clothes. The regulations respecting it are n…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:33-53
On uncleanness in houses. There are two metaphors commonly used in Holy Scripture for designating God's covenant people. They are I. GOD'S HOUSEHOLD. As the household of God the Father," of whom the whole family in heav…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:33-57
Leprosy in a house. From the first of these verses it is concluded that leprosy was not an ordinary disease, but a plague inflicted immediately by a judgment from God. That it was so inflicted in some instances upon per…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:34
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession. This is the first instance of a law being given which has no bearing on the present condition of the Israelites. but is to regulate their co…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:35-44
The examination of the suspected house by the priest. First, the house is to be emptied of its furniture, lest the latter should contract a ceremonial uncleanness in case the house were found to be leprous, but not, it…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:45
As the leper was removed from the camp, so the leprous house is to be utterly pulled down; the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and all its materials carried forth eat of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:48-53
The ceremony of cleansing the house is as similar to that of cleansing the leper as circumstances will permit. In case there is no reappearance of the mischief after the new stones and plastering have been put in, the p…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:54-57
These verses contain the concluding formula for Leviticus 13:1-59, Leviticus 14:1-57. The various names of leprosy and its kindred diseases are resumed from Leviticus 13:2. HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:1-33
EXPOSITION RUNNING ISSUES FROM THE HUMAN BODY. These are the fourth cause of ceremonial uncleanness. We are not to look for a moral basis for the regulation on account of any vicious habit connected with such issues. Th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:1-33
Secret sins. cf. Psalms 19:12; 1 Timothy 1:13. We have already had occasion to discern as a clear lesson of the old ritual that sin is a nature. The old law did not confine itself to overt acts, but insisted on "sins of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:1-33
Uncleanness. Had sin never entered, there had been no disease. Diseases are consequences of sin; their symptoms are therefore taken as emblems of it. So when our Lord miraculously "healed all manner of sickness, and all…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:1-33
Personal purity. It is not permissible to treat this chapter in any detail; to do so would he to act inconsistently with the very object of the legislation, viz, the encouragement of all delicacy of thought as well as p…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:2-15
The first case of an issue. It appears to be identical with the disease called by physicians gonorrhea, or, perhaps, blenorrhea (cf. Leviticus 22:4; Numbers 5:2). Leviticus 15:16, Leviticus 15:17 The second case of an i…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:18
The third case of an issue (cf. Exodus 19:15; 1 Samuel 21:5; 1 Corinthians 7:5).
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:19-24
The fourth case of an issue—that of ordinary menstruation (cf. Le Leviticus 12:2; Leviticus 20:18).
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:25-30
The fifth case of an issue—that of excessive menstruation, or menstruation occurring at the wrong time. This was probably the disease of the woman "who had an issue of blood".