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The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:3

When the hair in the plague is turned white. This is the first symptom, and the most noticeable as the commencement of the disease. The hair around the spot loses its colour and becomes thin and weak, the separate hairs being hardly stronger or individually thicker than down. The second symptom is when the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh ; that is, below the upper skin, or cuticle, and in the real cutis. These two symptoms distinguish real leprosy from other affections... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:3

It is a plague of leprosy. The chosen type of sin—its individual aspect. The conjecture that leprosy was contracted by the children of Israel in the hot and dusty brick-fields of Egypt is probable enough. The definition that it was "any severe disease spreading on the surface of the body in the way described in the chapter, and so shocking of aspect … that public feeling called for separation," is near enough for our purpose, There can be no question that it was the divinely chosen type... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:3

Conviction of sin. "And the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." In the Hebrew commonwealth: 1 . There were those who were reasonably suspected of leprosy, i.e; of "uncleanness." 2 . It was a matter of the gravest consequence to know whether these suspicions were well founded or not. For ascertained leprosy meant unfitness to approach God in worship, exclusion from the fellowship of his people, etc. 3 . It was the function of the priest to decide positively... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:4-8

In case the symptoms are not decisive, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days. The words thus translated would perhaps be better rendered, then the priest shall bind up the part affected for seven days. The priest is to delay his judgment for a week, and, if necessary, for a second week, during which period the patient is, according to the rendering, either to be confined to his house or, more probably, to have the spot bandaged. Whether the disease be or be not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:5

The chosen type of sin-its social aspect. We have seen ( vide previous Homily) how true a picture is leprosy of sin in its individual aspect; we now regard the subject in its more social aspect. What this terrible disease was to a man as a member of the Hebrew commonwealth, that is sin to a man as a member of society today. I. ITS LOATHSOMENESS . It is quite possible that the leprosy from which the Israelites suffered was a contagious disorder. It is also possible that the dread... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:3

The hair in the plague is turned white - The sparing growth of very fine whitish hair on leprous spots in the place of the natural hair, appears to have been always regarded as a characteristic symptom.the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh - Rather The stroke appears to be deeper than the scarf skin. The bright spot changed to a brownish color with a metallic or oily luster, and with a clearly-defined edge. This symptom, along with the whitish hair, at once decided the case... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:5

And the plague spread not - Rather, advance not, so as to show that the disease is under the cuticle and assuming the symptoms of Leviticus 13:3. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:6

Somewhat dark - Rather, somewhat dim: that is, if the spot is dying away. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 13:3

Leviticus 13:3. The priest shall look on the plague In some dubious cases, the priest might find it convenient to take the judgment of physicians, or of persons who understood the theory of diseases better than himself; but, as he was to admit to or exclude from the sanctuary, he alone was to give judgment, and pronounce who were clean or unclean, and, as such, to be admitted or excluded. When the hair is turned white He begins with the last of the three marks of a leprosy, namely, the ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 13:4

Leviticus 13:4. Seven days For greater assurance; to teach ministers not to be hasty in their judgments, but diligently to search and examine all things beforehand. The plague is here put in the original for the man that hath the plague. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:4-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 13:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 13:4

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