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37 and he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the
walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house,
and shut up the house seven days:
39 and the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look:
and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in
which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
If the priest, upon search, found that the leprosy had got into the house, he must try to cure it, by taking gout that part of the building that was infected, Le 14:40,41. This was like cutting off a gangrened limb, for the preservation of the rest of the body. Corruption should be purged out in time, before it spread; for a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.
41 and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and
they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
42 and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those
stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after
that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered;
44 then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be
spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
If yet it remained in the house, the whole house must be pulled down, and all the materials carried to the dunghill, Le 14:44,45. The owner had better be without a dwelling than live in one that was infected. Note, The leprosy of sin, if it be obstinate under the methods of cure, will at last be the ruin of families and churches. If Babylon will not be healed, she shall be forsaken and abandoned, and (according to the law respecting the leprous house), they shall not take of her a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, Jer 51:9,26.