LEVITICUS CHAPTER 14 Rites and sacrifices for the cleansing of a
leper; the leprosy being healed, and judged so by the priest, who,
going without the camp, must take two living clean birds, &c. The
manner of it: one to be slain, the other to be let loose, LEVITICUS
14:1. On the eighth day two male l... [ Continue Reading ]
Not into the priest's house, but to some place without the camp or
city, LEVITICUS 13:46, which the priest shall appoint.... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, by God; for God alone did heal or cleanse him really, the
priest only ministerially and declaratively, as ministers are said to
remit sins, though it be granted that none can truly and properly
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TWO BIRDS; the one to represent Christ as dying for his sins, the
other to represent him as rising again for his purification or
justification. CLEAN; allowed for food and for sacrifice. CEDAR WOOD;
a stick of cedar, to which the hyssop and one of the birds was tied by
the scarlet thread. Cedar seem... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, by some other man. The priest did not kill it himself, because
it was not properly a sacrifice, as being killed without the camp, and
not in that place to which all sacrifices were confined; and if it had
been a sacrifice, that might be killed by another, so long as the
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SEVEN TIMES, to signify his perfect cleansing and restoration to all
his former privileges. Compare LEVITICUS 4:17. INTO THE OPEN FIELD,
the place of its former abode, signifying the taking off that
restraint which was laid upon the leper, and the liberty which the
leper now had to return to his for... [ Continue Reading ]
SHAVE OFF ALL HIS HAIR; partly, to discover his perfect soundness;
partly, to preserve him from relapse through any seeds or relics of it
which might remain in his hair, or in his clothes; and partly, to
teach him to put off his old lusts, and become a new man. OUT OF HIS
TENT; out of his former hab... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL SHAVE ALL HIS HAIR, which began to grow again since it was
first shaved, and now for more caution is shaved again.... [ Continue Reading ]
Oil is added here as a fit sign of God's grace and mercy, and of the
leper's healing. LOG, a measure for liquid things containing six
eggshells-full.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing is ascribed to God, LEVITICUS 14:13, but the ceremonial
cleansing or making of him clean and fit for society was an act of the
priest using the rites which God had prescribed, whereby the sinner
was cleansed.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A TRESPASS-OFFERING, to teach them that sin was the cause of
leprosy and of all diseases, and that these ceremonial observations
had a further meaning, even to make them sensible of their spiritual
diseases, their sins, and to fly to God in Christ for the cure of
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IN THE HOLY PLACE, to wit, in the court of the tabernacle. See
LEVITICUS 1:11, LEVITICUS 7:7. IT IS MOST HOLY; both of them are
equally holy, and therefore to be offered in the same place.... [ Continue Reading ]
To signify that he was now free to hear God's word in the appointed
places, from which he was before excluded, and to touch any person or
tiring without defiling it, and to go whither he pleased.... [ Continue Reading ]
As the blood signified Christ's blood, by which men obtain remission
of sins; so the oil noted the graces of the Spirit, by which they are
regenerated and renewed.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Before the second veil which covered the holy of holies, where
God is oft said to dwell, and to be present in a peculiar manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Upon the place of that blood, as it is expressed LEVITICUS 14:28,
or where that blood was put, LEVITICUS 14:14; or, _over_ and _besides
the blood_, &c.; i.e. as the blood was put in those places, so shall
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THAT THEY EMPTY THE HOUSE, i.e. the possessors of the house. It is
observable here, that neither the people nor the household stuff were
polluted till the leprosy was discovered and declared by the priest,
to show what great difference God makes between sins of ignorance, and
sins against knowledge... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE this was an extraordinary judgment of God
peculiar to this people, either as a punishment of their sins, which
were much more sinful and inexcusable than the sins of other nations;
or as a special mean and help to repentance, which God afforded to
them above other people; o... [ Continue Reading ]
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To teach; to direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house
clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priest's power or will,
but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might discern no
less than the priest.... [ Continue Reading ]