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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…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:54-57
When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Eph 2:4, 5, we shall manifest the change by repenting, and forsaking former s…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:54-57
This is the conclusion of this law concerning the leprosy. There is no repetition of it in Deuteronomy, only a general memorandum given (Deuteronomy 24:8), Take heed in the plague of leprosy. We may see in this law, 1.…
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
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 15:1-23
We need not be curious in explaining these laws; but have reason to be thankful that we need fear no defilement, except that of sin, nor need ceremonial and burdensome purifications. These laws remind us that God sees a…
Ceremonial Purification. (b. c. 1490.)
CEREMONIAL PURIFICATION. (B. C. 1490.) We have here the law concerning the ceremonial uncleanness that was contracted by running issues in men. It is called in the margin (Leviticus 15:2) the running of the reins: a ver…
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
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 15:1-33
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
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 15:2-15
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).
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 15:19-33
This is concerning the ceremonial uncleanness which women lay under from their issues, both those that were regular and healthful, and according to the course of nature (Leviticus 15:19-24), and those that were unseason…
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
twelve years seems to rise up before us as we read, this verse. Jesus was going on an errand of mercy to heal the daughter of Jairus, and as he went the people thronged him. "And a certain woman, which had an issue of b…
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".
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:28
If she be cleansed of her issue. In the first and the fifth cases, the presentation of two turtle-doves or two young pigeons as a sin offering and a burnt offering is enjoined as the ceremonial cleansing required. In th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:31
That they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. The main purpose in the laws of uncleanness is to keep first God's house and then God's people free from the danger of defilemen…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:1-14
Without entering into particulars of the sacrifices on the great day of atonement, we may notice that it was to be a statute for ever, till that dispensation be at an end. As long as we are continually sinning, we conti…
The Great Day of Atonement. (b. c. 1490.)
THE GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT. (B. C. 1490.) Here is, I. The date of this law concerning the day of atonement: it was after the death of the two sons of Aaron (Leviticus 16:1), which we read, Leviticus 10:1. 1. Lest Aaron…