レビ記 13:47-58 JCB

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 13:56

colour = appearance. Hebrew eye. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 : eye put for appearance. read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 13:47

"The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment; whether it be in warp, or woof; of linen, or of woolen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin; if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or any thing of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be showed unto the priest: and the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days: and he... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 13:53

"And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more: and the priest shall look, after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague have not changed its color, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire: it is a fret, whether the bareness be... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 13:47

Leviticus 13:47. The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in— After having spoken of the leprosy in human creatures, the sacred writer proceeds to that very peculiar species of the disorder which affected garments, of whatever composition, and which, Calmet thinks, may well be accounted for upon that hypothesis which we mentioned before, observing, that as the Israelites in the wilderness were but ill provided in change of raiment, their linen, for want of being often changed and washed,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 13:48

Leviticus 13:48. Whether—in the warp, or woof— The warp is that range of threads which are set or fixed lengthwise in the loom, and through which the weaver shoots the cross threads called the woof; and I apprehend that the expression in the sacred writer means no more than the general texture of the linen or woollen garment, as much as to say, whether it be in the texture of linen or of woollen: and so, in the 59th verse, it is used again to express its being woven. Should it however be... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 13:47

47-59. The garment . . . that the . . . leprosy is in—It is well known that infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, measles, the plague, are latently imbibed and carried by the clothes. But the language of this passage clearly indicates a disease to which clothes themselves were subject, and which was followed by effects on them analogous to those which malignant leprosy produces on the human body—for similar regulations were made for the rigid inspection of suspected garments by a priest... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 13:1-59

3. Uncleanness due to skin and covering abnormalities chs. 13-14Many translations and commentaries have regarded the legislation in these chapters as dealing with leprosy, but this is misleading. The confusion has arisen because the term "leprosy" appears in most English texts in these chapters, and English readers automatically think that what we know as modern leprosy is in view. However as the chapters unfold it becomes increasingly clear that what is in view is not modern leprosy (Hansen’s... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 13:47-59

Abnormalities in clothing 13:47-59God mentioned three different cases of diseased garments in this part of the chapter.Material objects do not contract illnesses, but they do occasionally become abnormal due to mold, mildew, or some other invasive agent. Mosaic law did not view these abnormalities as necessarily dangerous to the health of the Israelites. They did, however, represent deviation from a proper condition."Decay or corruption [in and of the environment] is incompatible with the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:1-59

Uncleanness connected with LeprosyIt is tolerably certain that the leprosy of the OT. is not the leprosy of the Middle Ages, which is still to be found in the East. The latter is a terrible and loathsome disease, called elephantiasis, in consequence of which the skin thickens, the features are distorted, and the very limbs mortify and drop off from the body. The leprosy of the Bible is a skin disease, known as psoriasis, in which the skin and hair grow white, and which is accompanied with scab... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 13:47

(47) The garment also that.—Better, And if a garment hath. The fact that the same phrase, “plague of leprosy,” is used both in the case of garments and of human beings, and that the symptoms and working of leprous garments and those of leprous men are identical, shows beyond doubt that the same distemper is meant. The theory, therefore, that “plague of leprosy” is here used figuratively of garments fretted by a species of animalculæ or vermin, which feed upon and corrode the finer parts of the... read more