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the reforming kings took away the infected stones, yet still it broke out again, till by the captivity of Babylon God took down the house, and carried it to an unclean land; and this proved an effectual cure of their inclination to idols and idolatrous worships.
50 and he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over
running water:
51 and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet,
and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
52 and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with
the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields,
and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
This is the conclusion of this law concerning the leprosy. There is no repetition of it in Deuteronomy, only a general memorandum given (De 24:8), Take heed in the plague of leprosy. We may see in this law,
1 The gracious care God took of his people Israel, for to them only this law pertained, and not to the Gentiles. When Naaman the Syrian was cured of his leprosy he was not bidden to show himself to the priest, though he was cured in Jordan, as the Jews that were cured by our Saviour were. Thus those who are entrusted with the key of discipline in the church judge those only that are within; but those that are without God judgeth, 1Co 5:12,13.
2 The religious care we ought to take of ourselves, to keep our minds from the dominion of all sinful affections and dispositions, which are both their disease and their defilement, that we may be fit for the service of God. We ought also to avoid all bad company, and, as much as may