The Expositor's Bible: The Book of LeviticusKellogg, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry)
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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus
Kellogg, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry)
Bible. Leviticus -- Commentaries; Bible. Leviticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
And as it is written (Rom. viii. 11) that the final quickening of our
mortal bodies shall be accomplished by the Spirit of God, so the
leper, now in God's presence, receives a special anointing; a type of
the unction of the Holy Ghost in resurrection power, consecrating the
once leprous ear, hand, and foot, and therewith the whole body, now
cleansed from all defilement, to the glad service of Jehovah our God
and our Redeemer.
Such, in outline at least, appears to be the typical significance of
this ceremonial of the cleansing of the leper. Some details are
indeed still left unexplained, but, probably, the whole reason for
some of the regulations is to be found in the immediate practical
necessities of the leper's condition.
OF LEPROSY IN A GARMENT OR HOUSE.
xiii. 47-59; xiv. 33-53.
"The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be
a woollen garment, or a linen garment; whether it be in warp, or
woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing
made of skin; if the plague be greenish or reddish in the
garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in
any thing of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be
shewed unto the priest: and the priest shall look upon the
plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days: and he
shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be
spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
the skin, whatever service skin is used for; the plague is a
fretting leprosy; it is unclean. And he shall burn the garment,
whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in linen, or any
thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting
leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire. And if the priest shall
look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment,
either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; then
the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the
plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more: and the
priest shall look, after that the plague is washed: and, behold,
if the plague have not changed its colour, and the plague be not
spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire: it is a
fret, whether the bareness be within or without. And if the
priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing
thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the
skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: and if it appear
still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
any thing of skin, it is breaking out: thou shalt burn that
wherein the plague is with fire. And the garment, either the
warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou
shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be
washed the second time, and shall be clean. This is the law of
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