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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:4
Cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. "Cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet ' are also to be burnt with the red heifer for the ashes for the water of separation (Numbers 19:6), and they appear to have been commonly employ…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:4-9
Admission (or readmission). When leprosy had departed from the flesh, he who had been, but no longer remained, a leper was, in the sight of Jehovah and of his people, still ceremonially unclean. He was in a bodily condi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:5
One of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. A small quantity of water was placed in an earthenware dish, and one of the birds was killed over the dish in such a way that the blood dripped into th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:6
As for the living bird, he shall take it. The wings and tail of the bird were extended, and in this position it was dipped into the blood and water in the earthenware dish, and with it, the bunch made up of cedar, hysso…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:7
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times. It is not certain whether the seven sprinklings were made upon the forehead of the person to be cleansed, or on the back of his hand. T…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:8
After the healed leper has washed his clothes, and shaved off all his hair, and washed himself with water, so as to leave no remnant of his former defilement that can be removed, the first stage of his purification is o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:9
But it shall be on the seventh day. The pause for seven days, followed by placing the blood on the tip of the right ear, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the great toe of the right foot, and the subsequent ano…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:9-32
The ceremonies in the second stage of cleansing, which restored the late outcast to his home and to his covenant-right, were the following; 1. At the end of seven days he repeated the process of washing, shaving, and ba…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:10-32
The cleansed leper was to be presented to the Lord, with his offerings. When God has restored us to enjoy public worship again, after sickness, distance, or otherwise, we should testify our thanksgiving by our diligent…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:10-20
Observe, I. To complete the purification of the leper, on the eighth day, after the former solemnity performed without the camp, and, as it should seem, before he returned to his own habitation, he was to attend at the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 14:10
On the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour. Every sacrifice is to be provided and offered by the restored leper,…
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 14:10-32
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 14:12
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…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:21-32
We have here the gracious provision which the law made for the cleansing of poor lepers. If they were not able to bring three lambs, and three tenth-deals of flour, they must bring one lamb, and one tenth-deal of flour,…
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 14:21-32
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…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:33-53
The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of t…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:33-53
This is the law concerning the leprosy in a house. Now that they were in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, and had no houses, and therefore the law is made only an appendix to the former laws concerning the leprosy, b…
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 14:33-53
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
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…