Leviticus 13:53-58

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 13:53

And if the priest shall look ,.... On the seventh day as before, after shutting up: and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin ; but is at an entire stay, that it may be hoped it is not a fretting leprosy: so when men do not proceed to more ungodliness, as wicked men commonly do, but there is a stop put to their vicious life and conversation, it is an hopeful sign of future good. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:54

Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is ,.... The priest did not wash it himself, but ordered others to do it; and this was either the part in which the plague was, or the whole garment or skin in which it was; which may be typical of the washing of the garments of men in the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin, Revelation 7:14 , and he shall shut it up seven days more : the garment or skin in which the leprosy was, or suspected to be,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:55

And the priest shall look on the plague after it is washed ,.... That is, on the second seventh day, or thirteenth day from his first inspection of it: and, behold, if the plague has not changed its colour; and the plague be not spread, it is unclean, thou shalt burn it in the fire ; if it remains just as it was at first, very green or very red, and has not diminished of its colour at all, nor changed from one colour to another, although it should not have spread itself, yet it is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:56

And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it ,.... Is become of a weaker colour, either not quite so green, or not quite so red as it was, or is "contracted", and does not spread itself; see Gill on Leviticus 13:6 ; but is rather become less: then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof ; that is, that piece which has the plague in it, and burn it, as Jarchi says; that so the whole may... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:57

And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin ,.... After the piece has been rent out, in another part of the garment, &c.; where before it was not seen: it is a spreading plague ; or leprosy; a flourishing one, as the word signifies, a growing and increasing one: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire ; according to Aben Ezra, only that part in which the plague was; but Jarchi says the whole garment; with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:58

And the garment, either warp or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be , which thou shalt wash ,.... After it had been shut up seven days, and viewed by the priest again: if the plague be departed from them: upon a review of them: then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean ; and so reckoned even thoroughly clean, and used; this denotes the thorough washing and cleansing of sinners by the blood of Jesus, see Psalm 51:2 ; this washing was by dipping; and so the Targum... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:54

He shall shut it up seven days more - To give time for the spreading of the contagion, if it did exist there; that there might be the most unequivocal marks and proofs that the garment was or was not infected. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:58

It shall be washed the second time - According to the Jews the first washing was to put away the plague, the second to cleanse it. Both among Jews and Gentiles the leprosy has been considered as a most expressive emblem of sin, the properties and circumstances of the one pointing out those of the other. The similitude or parallel has been usually run in the following manner: - The leprosy began with a spot, a simple hidden infection being the cause. This spot was very conspicuous, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 13:58

Verse 58 58.And the garment. This kind of disease, God, in his infinite clemency, has willed to be unknown to us. He has indeed subjected woolen garments and furs to the ravages of the moth, and vessels of various kinds to rust, and other corruptions; in fact, has surrounded the human race with rottenness, in order that everywhere our eyes should light on the punishment of sin; but what the leprosy of garments may be, is unknown. But its expiation under the Law admonished his ancient people... read more

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