Leviticus 14:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses._] And to Aaron also, though not here mentioned, as he is, Leviticus 14:33 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses._] And to Aaron also, though not here mentioned, as he is, Leviticus 14:33 .... [ Continue Reading ]
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: Ver. 2. _He shall be brought unto the priest._] To teach us to go to Jesus Christ the High Priest of our profession, who healeth all our diseases. Psa 103:3 He cured the leprosy, to others altogethe... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; Ver. 3. _If the plague of leprosy be healed._] As it was in Simon the leper that entertained Christ. Jealousy, frenzy, and heresy are counted incurable diseases:... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: Ver. 4. _Command to take._] That the leper might show his thankfulness to Jehovah his physician, as he is called. Exo 15:26 See Matthew 8:4. Men pray and pay ph... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: Ver. 5. _Over running water._] Heb., Living water. Life consists in motion, in action: hence waters that spring and run, are, for their continual motion, called living waters. O Lord, saith Hezekia... [ Continue Reading ]
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: Ver. 6. _That was killed over the running water._] Pointing at Christ, who "came not by water only... [ Continue Reading ]
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 sprinkle._] This led them to that blood of sprinkling, Heb 12:23-24 applied unto them by that hyssop bran... [ Continue Reading ]
And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. Ver. 8. _Shall wash his clothes, and shave._] This the leper was to do th... [ Continue Reading ]
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. Ver. 9. _Even all his hair he shall shave off._] To sh... [ Continue Reading ]
And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. Ver. 10. _He shall take two he lambs._] That by these sacrifices he might be taught... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest that maketh [him] clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: Ver. 11. _At the door of the tabernacle._] There God is to be found, viz., in the public assemblies, and that we are indeed,... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD: Ver. 12. _And wave them._] This may note, (1.) Christ's extreme sufferings; (2.) The waving of Christ in the preaching of the gospel; (3.) The motio... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering [is] the priest's, [so is] the trespass offering: it [is] most holy: Ver. 13. _It is most holy._] The way of holiness in and by Christ is an absolute way a... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: Ver. 14. _Upon the tip of the right ear._] To signify th... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall take [some] of the log of oil, and pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand: Ver. 15. _Some of the log of oil._] Christ's comforts must be warily propounded to men, and with good discretion.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that [is] in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD: Ver. 16. _Seven times._] This might note the perfection of the joys God hath for his, and our imperfection in believing it, in that it was so m... [ Continue Reading ]
And of the rest of the oil that [is] in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering: Ver. 17. _Upon the tip of the right ear._] To a... [ Continue Reading ]
And the remnant of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD. Ver. 18. _Upon the head._] Everlasting joy shall be upon the heads of Christ's ransomed ones. Isa 35:10... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering: Ver. 19. _And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering._] We must be reconciled by Christ, our sin offering, before the sacrifici... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. Ver. 20. _And the meat offering._] The meat offering annexed to the burnt offering shows, saith one, _a_ either that Christians grow marvellousl... [ Continue Reading ]
And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil; Ver. 21. _And if he be poor._] there is a proviso for poor people: G... [ Continue Reading ]
This [is] the law [of him] in whom [is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his cleansing. Ver. 32. _Whose hand is not able to get._] This is often urged, to show that the best that can be got must not be thought too good for God: and that if through care... [ Continue Reading ]
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; Ver. 34. _Plague of leprosy in a house._] Such is the contagion of sin, that it will infect the very house we dwell in, the garments we wear, eve... [ Continue Reading ]
And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me [there is] as it were a plague in the house: Ver. 35. _As it were a plague._] He might not flatly say, it was the leprosy, till the priest had so pronounced it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go [into it] to see the plague, that all that [is] in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: Ver. 36. _That all that is in the house be not made unclean._] As it will be when on... [ Continue Reading ]