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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:29-37
The method of discriminating between a leprous spot on the head or beard and an ulcer in the same place. The symptoms of leprosy are the same as before, except that the hairs in this case are of a reddish-yellow colour…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:38-46
We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Leviticus 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:40-44
Affections of the mind. We learn lessons concerning— I. THE BLEMISH OF MENTAL PECULIARITY. (Leviticus 13:40.) Evidently baldness was an unusual and an unsightly thing among the Israelites. Otherwise it would not have ex…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:40-44
Leprosy appearing on the bald head. Though leprosy makes the hair drop off around the leprous spot, baldness is in itself no sign of leprosy, whether at the back or front of the head (Leviticus 13:40, Leviticus 13:41);…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:45-46
When the priest had pronounced the leper unclean, it put a stop to his business in the world, cut him off from his friends and relations, and ruined all the comfort he could have in the world. He must humble himself und…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:46
The right and duty of excommunication. "He shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." The right of expulsion from the Jewish camp would be founded, in the mind of Moses, on the Divine commandment (tex…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:47-59
The garment suspected to be tainted with leprosy was not to be burned immediately. If, upon search, it was found that there was a leprous spot, it must be burned, or at least that part of it. If it proved to be free, it…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:47-59
This is the law concerning the plague of leprosy in a garment, whether linen or woollen. A leprosy in a garment, with discernible indications of it, the colour changed by it, the garment fretted, the nap worn off, and t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:47-59
Impure surroundings. Our garments are our immediate surroundings, and there may be in them as well as in ourselves that which is offensive and "unclean." There was an impurity in the garment as well as in the human body…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:47-59
On purity of garments, There are passages in different parts of Holy Scripture which it is necessary to put together in order to get a comprehensive view of what only at first sight appears to be a slight subject. I. Th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:47-59
EXPOSITION LEPROSY IN CLOTHES (Leviticus 13:47-59). To account for the use of the name leprosy in this connection, an ingenious theory has been propounded that the same cause produced a like effect in the human frame in…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:47
Whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment. Wool and flax are the two materials for clothes mentioned in Deuteronomy 22:11; Proverbs 31:13; Hosea 2:7.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:48
Whether it be in the warp, or woof. It is hardly possible that such a fault as leprosy or mildew could appear in one set of the threads without affecting the others, provided that both were equally good when they were m…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 13:49-59
The priest is to deal with the texture as nearly as may be in the same way that lie dealt with the human subject, in order to discriminate between a tempo-rare discoloration and a real leprosy. He shall shut up it that…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:1-9
The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and the society of his people. They represent many duti…
The Law Concerning Leprosy. (b. c. 1490.)
THE LAW CONCERNING LEPROSY. (B. C. 1490.) Here, I. It is supposed that the plague of the leprosy was not an incurable disease. Uzziah's indeed continued to the day of his death, and Gehazi's was entailed upon his seed;…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-9
The cleansing of the leper-ceremonies outside the camp. As leprosy is evidently a remarkable emblem of sin, so must the cleansing of the leper represent the purification of the sinner, and the laws of the cleansing, the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-32
EXPOSITION THE FORM OF PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER (Leviticus 14:1-32). This is the most minute of all the forms of purification, those for purification from contact with a dead body (Numbers 19:1-22) and for the cleansin…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-20
Restoration suggestions. The ceremonies here enjoined in the event of leprosy being healed suggest four things. I. AN INTERESTING PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF OUR LORD. Our Saviour's experiences may be divided into: Of these…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-20
Thorough purification. Spiritual disease is often neglected by persons who are extremely anxious respecting some disease of the physical frame. For the former they seek no remedy, and display no concern as to its ultima…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-32
The cleansing of the leper represents the absolution of the sinner, as his exclusion from the camp represented spiritual excommunication. I. THE LAW OF CHRISTIAN EXCOMMUNICATION AND ABSOLUTION, "I will give unto thee th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:1-57
The cleansing of sin as illustrated in the cleansing of the leper. cf. 2혻Kings 5:1-27; Matthew 8:1-4; Luke 5:12-15. We have seen the possibility of a cure of leprosy in the directions for its diagnosis given to the prie…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:2
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. The ceremonies in the first stage of cleansing, which restored the outcast to the common life of his fellows, were the following: 1. The priest formally ex…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:3
The priest. The agent is stilt the priest, not the physician. The priest shall go forth out of the camp. "May we not (as Hesychius suggests) see a figure here of the compassion of our Great High Priest, who has gone for…