レビ記 13:43-46 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 13:38-46

We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev. 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his bald head (2 Kgs. 2:23); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. II. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any time it did appear in a bald head: The plague is in his head, he is utterly unclean, Lev. 13:44.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:43

Then the priest shall look upon it ,.... The white reddish sore: and, behold, if the rising of the sore ; or the swelling of it: be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead ; See Gill on Leviticus 13:42 , as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh ; as in Leviticus 13:2 ; having the signs of the leprosy there given; anyone of them, excepting the white hair, which in this case could be no sign, there being none: Jarchi's note is, according to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:44

He is a leprous man, he is unclean ,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean ; as in any other case of leprosy: his plague is in his head ; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:45

And the leper in whom the plague is ,.... Meaning not he only that has the plague of leprosy in his head, but every sort of leper before mentioned in this chapter: his clothes shall be rent ; not that he might the more easily put on his clothes without hurting him, as some have thought; or that the corrupt humours might evaporate more freely, for evaporation would rather be hindered than promoted by being exposed to cold; nor that he might be known and better avoided, for his cry after... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:46

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled ,.... Reckoned an unclean person, and avoided as such: he is unclean ; in a ceremonial sense, and pronounced as such by the priest, and was to be looked upon as such by others during the time of his exclusion and separation, until he was shown to the priest and cleansed, and his offering offered: he shall dwell alone ; in a separate house or apartment, as Uzziah did, 2 Chronicles 26:21 ; none were allowed to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:45

His clothes shall be rent, etc. - The leprous person is required to be as one that mourned for the dead, or for some great and public calamity. He was to have his clothes rent in token of extreme sorrow; his head was to be made bare, the ordinary bonnet or turban being omitted; and he was to have a covering upon his upper lip, his jaws being tied up With a linen cloth, after the same manner in which the Jews bind up the dead, which custom is still observed among the Jews in Barbary on... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:44

Verse 44 44.He is a leprous man, he is unclean. In the first part of the verse he says that the leprous man must be counted unclean; but, in the latter part, he commands the priest to give sentence against this uncleanness, lest it should be carried into the congregation. On this ground he says, “his plague is upon his head,” which is as much as to say, that he is sentenced to just ignominy, for Moses takes it for granted that God holds up to public infamy whomsoever He smites with leprosy, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-46

The name leprosy has been made to cover a number of diseases similar but not identical in character. There are many spurious forms of leprosy, and many diseases akin to leprosy which do not now come under discussion. The disease here dealt with is elephantiasis, especially in its anesthetic form, which is otherwise called white leprosy. The two varieties of elephantiasis—the tuberculated and the anesthetic—are, however, so closely connected together that they cannot be separated, the one.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

The diagnosis of sin as illustrated in the leprosy. cf. 2 Kings 5:1-27 : Psalms 88:1-18 ; Matthew 8:1-4 ; Luke 5:12-15 . The preceding chapter brings forward sin as an inheritance through ordinary generation. No thorough sense or treatment of sin can be reached unless it is recognized as a nature. But God went further in his education of his people. He took one disease with unmistakable characteristics; he legislated about it, doomed the possessor of it to a certain treatment,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

Leprosy. That leprosy is a type of sin is evident from David's allusion in confessing his own horrible offenses (see Psalms 51:7 )? This also appears from the words of Jesus to the only leper, out of the ten cleansed by him, who returned to give glory to God: "Thy faith hath saved thee" (see Luke 17:11-19 ). The others had faith which availed them to remove the leprosy of the body; but this man's faith availed to remove the leprosy of the soul. Hence this plague often came as a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 13:38-46

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:43

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:44

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:45

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:46

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:45

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:44

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-46

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

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