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 former habitation and conversation with other men.
Verse Leviticus 14:7. _SHALL LET THE LIVING BIRD LOOSE_] The Jews teach that _wild_ birds were employed on this occasion, no _tame_ or _domestic_ animal was used. Mr. Ainsworth piously conjectures th...
SEVEN TIMES - The seal of the covenant, expressed in the number seven (compare Leviticus 14:9), was renewed in sprinkling him who, during his leprosy, had lived as an outcast. The details of a restora...
4. THE CLEANSING OF THE LEPER CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The cleansing of the leper (Leviticus 14:1)_ 2. Leprosy in the house and its purification (Leviticus 14:33) The cleansing and restoration of the leper...
11- 15. RITUAL CLEANLINESS AND UNCLEANLINESS. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1, Purgation for skin diseases; L...
NORMAL LAW OF CLEANSING after the disease has disappeared. The patient brings to the priest two birds, and he is sprinkled with the blood of one of them, killed in an earthenware (and therefore cheap)...
SEVEN TIMES. Compare Leviticus 4:6; 2 Kings 5:10; 2 Kings 5:14. App-10. PRONOUNCE HIM CLEAN. Hebrew make him clean. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct). declare him to be clean....
_seven times_ As in Leviticus 14:27_; Leviticus 14:51_and so in Leviticus 4:6; Leviticus 4:17;...
The priest was to see that two living clean birds were brought. The Heb. word is _ẓippôr_, which is used of the birds of Abraham's sacrifice (Genesis 15:10) and of clean birds generally (Deuteronomy 1...
REGULATIONS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF A LEPER 14:1-32 TEXT 14:1-32 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto...
_AS FOR THE LIVING BIRD, HE SHALL TAKE IT, AND THE CEDAR WOOD, AND THE SCARLET, AND THE HYSSOP, AND SHALL DIP THEM AND THE LIVING BIRD IN THE BLOOD OF THE BIRD THAT WAS KILLED OVER THE RUNNING WATER:_...
14:7 sprinkle (g-4) As ch. 8.11....
THE PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER. THE LEPROSY OF HOUSES When a leper has been cured of his plague, and has satisfied the priest that his cure is complete, he is required to go through a ceremonial purifi...
The release of the living bird signified the removal of the uncleanness, perhaps also the restored liberty of the leper. Cp. the release of the goat on the Day of Atonement, Leviticus 16:21; Leviticus...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
AND HE SHALL SPRINKLE. — Having thus dipped the hyssop fastened to the cedar stick into the blood and water, the priest is to sprinkle with it the back of the hand and the forehead of the patient seve...
וְ הִזָּ֗ה עַ֧ל הַ מִּטַּהֵ֛ר מִן ־הַ
THE CLEANSING OF THE LEPER Leviticus 14:1 THE ceremonies for the restoration of the leper, when healed of his disease, to full covenant privileges, were comprehended in two distinct series. The first...
THE LAW OF THE CLEANSED LEPER Leviticus 14:1 The penalty, when leprosy had unmistakably declared itself, included compulsory severance from the camp, the rent garments, the bare head, the covered lip...
The possibility of the restoration of a leper to health was recognized and provision was made accordingly. In the case of the individual, the ceremony was elaborate. The priest must first visit him wi...
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall (d) let the living bird loose into the open field. (d) Signifying that he...
Rightly. According to law. (Haydock) --- The number seven is used to denote perfection, ver. 15, &c. (Menochius) --- Field. An emblem of the liberty which the leper would soon enjoy. (Haydock) --- The...
There is somewhat particularly striking in the sevenfold application. It is very plain that the blood of JESUS must be sprinkled on the sinner, as well as shed for the sinner. For an unapplied ransom...
The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...
_‘THE LEPERS ARE CLEANSED’_ ‘The Priest shall pronounce him clean.’ Leviticus 14:7 The leper typified a sinner; the healed leper that sinner repentant and believing; and the cleansed leper the beli...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. Leprosy requires a little more detail. It was found in persons, in garments, in houses. Leprosy was sin acting in the flesh. The spiritual man-the...
AND HE SHALL SPRINKLE UPON HIM THAT IS TO BE CLEANSED FROM THE LEPROSY SEVEN TIMES,.... With the hyssop fastened to the cedar stick, with the scarlet wool or thread bound about it, dipped into the blo...
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. Ver. 7. _And he shall sprin...
_Into the open field_ The place of its former abode, signifying the taking off that restraint which was laid upon the leper, and that he was restored to free conversation with his neighbours....
[CLEANSING OF THE LEPROSIE.] 1 The rites and sacrifices in clensing of the Leper. 33 The signes of leprosie in a house. 48 The clensing of that house. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Th...
s home. If, however, he presumptuously leaves his asylum sooner, he is exposed to the anger of the avenger, Numbers 35:26. " 2)...
And they, in accordance with this express order of the Lord, APPOINTED KEDESH IN GALILEE IN MOUNT NAPHTALI, in the extreme northern part of Canaan, AND SHECHEM IN MOUNT EPHRAIM, in the approximate cen...
RESTORING OF A LEPER (VV. 1-20) Even a case of leprosy may be healed, though this is not frequently seen in the Old Testament. Miriam's leprosy was healed very soon after her infliction (Numbers 12:9)...
INTO THE OPEN FIELD: _ Heb._ upon the face of the field...
1-9 The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and the society of his people....
Of all the functions which, according to the Mosaic ritual, the priest had to discharge, none demanded more patient attention, or more strict adherence to the divine guide-book, than the discernment a...
Leviticus 14:7 sprinkle H5137 (H8689) seven H7651 times H6471 cleansed H2891 (H8693) leprosy H6883 clean H2891 ...
THE LAW OF THE SKIN-DISEASED IN THE DAY OF HIS CLEANSING (LEVITICUS 14:2) Leviticus 14:2 “This shall be the law of the skin-diseased in the day of his cleansing, He shall be brought to the priest, a...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning cleansing of lepers. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: As the leper was cleansed from his fearful malady through the water and the blood, so Christ comes into the soul fo...
Leviticus 14:3. _The plague of leprosy._ This loathsome disease rendered the body torpid, and severely depressed the spirits, as is affirmed by our learned travellers in the east. It commences with wh...
_The law of the leper in the day of his cleansing._ CLEANSING THE LEPER I. The disease. 1. Its peculiar designation. Leprosy the “plague of boils” (Deuteronomy 28:1.), which applies very forcibly t...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 14:1 Chapter Leviticus 14:1 explains how an unclean person who had been placed outside the camp is readmitted into the covenant community....
Leprosy Cleansed SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 14:2.—In the day of his cleansing. Remedy and respite came to the pitiable leper. Although his case seemed forlorn and dismal—unclean, and an outcast—ye...
EXPOSITION THE FORM OF PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER (Leviticus 14:1). This is the most minute of all the forms of purification, those for purification from contact with a dead body (Numb
In chapter fourteen it begins with very fascinating words, And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing (Leviticus 14:1-2): Interesting, indee...
1 John 5:6; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Kings 5:10; 2 Kings 5:14; Daniel 9:24;...
Into the open field — The place of its former abode, signifying the taking off that restraint which was laid upon the leper....