John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:8
And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin ,.... Is not at a stay, as when he looked at it a second and third time: then the priest shall pronounce him unclean ; a leprous person; to be absolutely so, as Jarchi expresses it; and so obliged to the birds (to bring birds for his cleansing), and to shaving, and to the offering spoken of in this section, as the same writer observes: it is a leprosy : it is a clear and plain case that it was one, and no doubt is... 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