Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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17 and the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned
into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and
is healed,
19 and in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot,
white, and somewhat reddish, and it be showed to the priest;
20 and if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the
skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
The priest is here instructed what judgment to make if there was any appearance of a leprosy, either,
1. In an old ulcer, or bile, that has been healed, Le 13:18, &c. When old sores, that seemed to be cured, break out again, it is to be feared there is a leprosy in them; such is the danger of those who, having escaped the pollutions of the world, are again entangled therein and overcome. Or,
2. In a burn by accident, for this seems to be meant, Le 13:24, &c. The burning of strife and contention often proves the occasion of the rising up and breaking out of that corruption which witnesses to men's faces that they are unclean.
3. In a scall-head. And in this commonly the judgment turned upon a very small matter. If the hair in the scall was black, it was a sign of soundness; if yellow, it was an indication of a leprosy, Le 13:30-37. The other rules in these cases are the same with those mentioned before. In reading of these several sorts of ailments, it will be good for us,
a. To lament the calamitous state of human life, which lies exposed to so many grievances. What troops of diseases are we beset with on every side! and they all entered by sin.