レビ記 13:47-52 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 13:47-59

This is the law concerning the plague of leprosy in a garment, whether linen or woollen. A leprosy in a garment, with discernible indications of it, the colour changed by it, the garment fretted, the nap worn off, and this in some one particular part of the garment, and increasing when it was shut up, and not to be got out by washing is a thing which to us now is altogether unaccountable. The learned confess that it was a sign and a miracle in Israel, an extraordinary punishment inflicted by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:47

The garments also, that the plague of leprosy is in ,.... Whether this sort of leprosy proceeded from natural causes, or was extraordinary and miraculous, and came immediately from the hand of God, and was peculiar to the Jews, and unknown to other nations, is a matter of question; the latter is generally asserted by the Hebrew writers, as Maimonides F5 Hilchot Tumaat Tzarat, c. 16. sect. 10. , Abraham Seba F6 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 99. 3. , and others F7 Ramban, Bechai, Isaac... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:48

Whether it be in the warp, or woof, of linen, or of woollen ,.... When these are woven and mixed together, it seems difficult, if not impossible, to judge whether the plague of leprosy was in the one or in the other; one would think it should be unavoidably in both; wherefore Castalio renders the words, whether "in the outer part of it, or in the inner"; in the outside or inside, or what we call the right side or the wrong side of the cloth: but to me it seems that the warp and woof,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:49

And if the plague be greenish or reddish the garment, or in the skin ,.... Either of these two colours were signs of leprosy in garments; but it is not agreed whether stronger or weaker colours are designed; the radicals of both these words being doubled, according to some, and particularly Aben Ezra, lessen the sense of them; and so our translators understand it; but, according to Ben Gersom, the signification is increased thereby, and the meaning is, if it be exceeding green or exceeding... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:50

And the priest shall look upon the plague ,.... The green or red spot in the garment, &c.; and shut up it that hath the plague seven days ; the woollen or linen garment, the warp or the woof, or skins, and those things that were made of them. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:51

And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day ,.... To see whether there is any alteration in it in that space of time: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin ; the green and red spot be spread more and more in either of them, whether the colour remains the same or not, be changed, the green into red, or the red into green, yet if there was a spreading, it was a sign of leprosy. According to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:52

He shall therefore burn that garment ,.... That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts: whether in warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin , wherein the plague is ; all and either of them were to be burnt: for it is a fretting leprosy ; See Gill on Leviticus 13:51 , it shall be burnt in the fire ; which may teach both to hate the garment spotted with the flesh, and to put no trust in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:47

The garment also - The whole account here seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by this contagion; and hence it is likely that it was occasioned by a species of small animals, which we know to be the cause of the itch; these, by breeding in the garments, must necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i. e., corrode a, portion of the finer parts, after the manner of moths, for their nourishment. See Leviticus 13:52 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:52

He shall therefore burn that garment - There being scarcely any means of radically curing the infection. It is well known that the garments infected by the psora, or itch animal, have been known to communicate the disease even six or seven years after the first infection. This has been also experienced by the sorters of rags at some paper mills. 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 13:47-59

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:47

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:49

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:50

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:51

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:52

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:47

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:52

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-59

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