John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:13
Then the priest shall consider ,.... Look wistly upon it, and well weigh the matter in his own mind, that he may make a true judgment and pronounce a right sentence: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh ; from head to foot, so that no quick, raw, or sound flesh appear in him: he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague ; not clean from a leprosy he is covered with; but that he is free from pollution by it, and under no obligation to bring his offering,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 13:1-17
I. Concerning the plague of leprosy we may observe in general, 1. That it was rather an uncleanness than a disease; or, at least, so the law considered it, and therefore employed not the physicians but the priests about it. Christ is said to cleanse lepers, not to cure them. We do not read of any that died of the leprosy, but it rather buried them alive, by rendering them unfit for conversation with any but such as were infected like themselves. Yet there is a tradition that Pharaoh, who... read more