Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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between the precious and the vile, and to judge who are fit as clean to partake of the holy things and who as unclean must be debarred from them.
2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab,
or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
3 and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and
when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be
not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
Several rules are here laid down by which the judgment of the priest must be governed.
1. If the sore was but skin-deep, it was to be hoped it was not the leprosy, Le 13:4. But, if it was deeper than the skin, the man must be pronounced unclean, Le 13:3. The infirmities that consist with grace do not sink deep into the soul, but the mind still serves the law of God, and the inward man delights in it, Ro 7:22,25. But if the matter be really worse than it shows, and the inwards be infected, the case is dangerous.
2. If the sore be at a stay, and do not spread, it is no leprosy, Le 13:4,5. But if it spread much abroad, and continue to do so after several inspections, the case is bad, Le 13:7,8. If men do not grow worse, but a stop be put to the course of their sins and their corruptions be checked, it is to be hoped they will grow better; but if sin get ground, and they become worse every day, they are going downhill.
3. If there was proud raw flesh in the rising, the priest needed not to wait any longer, it was certainly a leprosy, Le 13:10,11. Nor is there any surer indication of the badness of