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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Leviticus 13:1-46

A.—EXAMINATION AND ITS RESULTLeviticus 13:1-461And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of the flesh like the plague [a spot1] of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: 3and the priest shall look on the plague [spot1] in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague [spot1] is turned2 white, and the plague [spot1] in... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Leviticus 13:1-59

THIRD SECTIONLaws Concerning LeprosyChaps. 13, 14______________PRELIMINARY NOTEThe disease of leprosy has happily become so rare in modern times in the better known parts of the world that much obscurity rests upon its pathology. The attempt will only be made here to point out those matters which may be considered as fixed by common consent, but which will be found sufficient for the illustration of the more important points in the following chapters.In the first place, then, it appears... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-17

the Test of Leprosy Leviticus 13:1-17 Leprosy was a sort of living death, involving exclusion from the fellowship of the living, and from the sanctuary. Consequently the process of restoration consisted of two stages: re-admission, through the cure of disease, into the fellowship of the living, Leviticus 13:1-59 , and then to the camp and sanctuary, through the due performance of prescribed rites, Leviticus 14:1-32 . The enumeration of the symptoms is very deliberate. The priest was required... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:1-59

Here we have a section (chapters 13, 14) wholly devoted to the subject of leprosy. The disease was dealt with as one which is loathsome, whose tendency is to spread, and which is contagious. The whole community must be zealously safeguarded. Therefore, there must be no carelessness in the method of dealing with leprosy. In the instructions two principles of perpetual importance are manifested. The first is the necessity for guarding the general health of the community and the second is that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:9-17

Dealing With Chronic Skin Diseases (Leviticus 13:9-17 ). Leviticus 13:9-11 ‘When the plague of a suspicious skin disease is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall look, and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, it is an old suspicious skin disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.” In this case... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:1-59

Leviticus 13:1-Acts : . General Procedure.— Certain classes of signs arouse suspicion. The priest is to inspect. If he sees them to be distinctly leprous, the patient is to be so treated; otherwise he is to be secluded for one or two periods of seven days; if there is no further spreading, he is discharged clean.” Leviticus 13:1-Ruth : . First Case.— A ring or scab on the flesh. If there are white hairs more than skin-deep, the disease is present. Leviticus 13:9-Esther : . Recovery of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 13:10

If the rising be white, to wit, with a preternatural and extraordinary whiteness, as Numbers 12:10. And there be; or rather, or, the copulative put for the disjunctive, as hath been noted before; for either of these were signs of a leprosy, and one of these may seem inconsistent with the other; the former sign of white hair supposing the skin in which the hair was to remain, and the latter of live flesh supposing the skin to be consumed by the leprosy. Quick raw flesh showed that this was not a... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

Leprosy: its Discobery and TreatmentSUGGESTIVE READINGSGathering into view the circumstantial and concise description of the malady here given; the directions concerning leprosy may be thus analysed and arranged: Symptoms of leprosy:1. Their minuteness: small in their beginnings, trifling skin blemishes or hair defects, scarcely distinguishable at the outset, evasive therefore, and subtle.2. Their intricacy: so resembling other ailments, in some cases rising out of other blemishes and wounds;... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Leviticus 13:1-59

DISCOURSE: 125FIRE ON THE ALTAR NOT TO GO OUTLeviticus 13:0. The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar: it shall never go out.IT is a matter of deep regret that religious persons do not enter more fully into the Jewish Ritual, and explore with more accuracy the mysteries contained in it. And I am not sure that Ministers, whose office properly leads them to unfold the sacred volume to their people, are not chargeable with a great measure of this remissness, in that they are not more careful.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

Chapter 13As we get into chapter thirteen, God is dealing with the subject of leprosy, and the priests were given instructions on how to diagnose leprosy, a breaking out on a person's body. The examination of it, the color of hairs that are in the blotch and so forth, so that the priest can truly identify the leper. Now it was two-fold. Number one, if it was indeed leprosy, and many times they would set them apart for seven days and re-examine them to see if there be any change of condition.... read more

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