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John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Leviticus 13:47

The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;Leprosy in garments and houses is unknown in these times and places, which is not strange, there being some diseases peculiar to some ages and countries. And that such a thing was among the Jews, cannot reasonably be doubted; for, if Moses had been a deceiver, a man of his wisdom, would not have exposed himself to the contempt of his people by giving laws about that which their experience... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Leviticus 13:48

Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;In the warp or woof — A learned man renders it in the outside, or in the inside of it. If the signification of these words be doubtful now, as some of those of the living creatures and precious stones are confessed to be, it is not material to us, this law being abolished; it sufficeth that the Jews understood these things by frequent experience. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:46-59

LEPROSY IN A GARMENT, Leviticus 13:47-59. Moses proceeds to describe a leprous garment in the very words used to describe the leprosy in a man plague or stroke of leprosy. This has moved the mirth of some and the wonder of others. For it is evident that the garments of the leper are not intended. 1.) The method of purifying these is described in Leviticus 14:8. Leviticus 14:2.) The infection is described as visibly spreading in the garment. This is totally unlike “the garment spotted with... read more

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