Leviticus 14:2
He shall be brought to the priest — Not into the priest's house, but to some place without the camp or city, which the priest shall appoint.... [ Continue Reading ]
He shall be brought to the priest — Not into the priest's house, but to some place without the camp or city, which the priest shall appoint.... [ Continue Reading ]
Healed by God — For God alone did heal or cleanse him really, the priest only declaratively.... [ Continue Reading ]
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... [ Continue Reading ]
Killed — 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. In an earthen — vessel — That is, over running water put in an earthen — vessel — Thus the blood of... [ Continue Reading ]
Into the open field — The place of its former abode, signifying the taking off that restraint which was laid upon the leper.... [ Continue Reading ]
All his hair — Partly to discover his perfect soundness; partly to preserve him from a relapse through any relicks of it which might remain in his hair or in his clothes. Out of his tent — Out of his former habitation, in some separate place, lest some of his leprosy yet lurking in him should break... [ Continue Reading ]
All his hair — Which began to grow again, and now for more caution is shaved again.... [ Continue Reading ]
Oil is added as a fit sign of God's grace and mercy, and of the leper's healing. A log is a measure containing six egg — shells full.... [ Continue Reading ]
Maketh him clean — The healing is ascribed to God, Leviticus 14:13, but the ceremonial cleansing was an act of the priest using the rites which God had prescribed.... [ Continue Reading ]
A trespass — offering — To teach them, that sin was the cause of leprosy, and of all diseases, and that these ceremonial observations had a farther meaning, to make them sensible of their spiritual diseases, that they might fly to God in Christ for the cure of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
The priest shall put it — To signify, that he was now free to hear God's word in the appointed places, and to touch any person or thing without defiling it, and to go whither he pleased.... [ Continue Reading ]
The oil — As the blood signified Christ's blood by which men obtained remission of sins, so the oil noted the graces of the spirit by which they are renewed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Before the Lord — Before the second veil which covered the holy of holies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon the blood — Upon the place where that blood was put.... [ Continue Reading ]
The priest shall put the blood — Upon the extremities of the body, to include the whole. And some of the oil was afterwards put in the same places upon the blood. That blood seems to have been a token of forgiveness, the oil of healing: For God first forgiveth our iniquities, and then healeth our di... [ Continue Reading ]
That all be not made unclean — 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 shew 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 help to repentance, which God afforded them above other people; or as a tok... [ Continue Reading ]
An unclean place — Where they used to cast dirt and filthy things.... [ Continue Reading ]
To teach — To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priests power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might discern no less than the priest.... [ Continue Reading ]