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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 13:52

He shall therefore burn. — As this distemper could never be eradicated from stuffs, the garments which have once become possessed of leprosy had to be burnt.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 13:52. _HE SHALL THEREFORE BURN THAT GARMENT_] There being scarcely any means of _radically_ curing the infection. It is well known that the garments infected by the _psora_, or itch...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. LEPROSY: TYPE OF INDWELLING SIN CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Leprosy in a person (Leviticus 13:1)_ 2. The infected garment. (Leviticus 13:47) 3. The cleansing of the garment (Leviticus 13:58

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENERAL PROCEDURE. Certain classes of signs arouse suspicion. The priest is to inspect. If he sees them to be distinctly leprous, the patient is to be so treated; otherwise he is to be secluded for on...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Leprosy in garments_(47 59) The nature of these spots in clothing is not clear. It is generally supposed that they are caused by mildew or moth (see Art. _Leprosy, HDB_.); another suggestion is that...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LEPROSY IN LINEN, WOOLEN, AND LEATHER FABRICS AND CLOTHES 13:47-59 TEXT 13:47-59 47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment; 48 whethe...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE GARMENT ALSO THAT THE PLAGUE OF LEPROSY IS IN, WHETHER IT BE A WOOLLEN GARMENT, OR A LINEN GARMENT;_ The garment ... that the ... leprosy is in. 'It is well known that infectious diseases-such a...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:52 burn (a-4) burned (a-35) 'Consume wholly.' see ch. 4.12....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNCLEANNESS CONNECTED WITH LEPROSY It is tolerably certain that the leprosy of the OT. is not the leprosy of the Middle Ages, which is still to be found in the East. The latter is a terrible and loath...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׂרַ֨ף אֶת ־הַ בֶּ֜גֶד אֹ֥ו אֶֽת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    OF LEPROSY IN A GARMENT OR HOUSE Leviticus 13:47; Leviticus 14:33 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; whether it be in warp, or wo...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have a section (Chapter s 13, 14) wholly devoted to the subject of leprosy. The disease was dealt with as one which is loathsome, whose tendency is to spread, and which is contagious. The whol...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The apostle Jude, no doubt in allusion to this defiled state of the garment, speaks of the hatred that is to be shown to such as are spotted by the flesh. Jude 1:23. Nothing can more fully indicate th...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE SHALL THEREFORE BURN THAT GARMENT,.... That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts: WHETHER IN WARP OR WOOF, IN WOOLLEN OR IN...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Lawes and tokens whereby the Priest is to be guided in discerning the Leprosie. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 When a man shall haue in the skinne of his flesh, a [NOTE:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ordinances Concerning Leprosy....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woolen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is; for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire, that being...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS CONCERNING LEPROSY (VV. 1-44) The seriousness of the plague of leprosy is emphasized by the fact that two long Chapter s are devoted to this subject. The physical illness, however, is significant...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    47-59 The garment suspected to be tainted with leprosy was not to be burned immediately. If, upon search, it was found that there was a leprous spot, it must be burned, or at least that part of it. I...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 13:52 burn H8313 (H8804) garment H899 plague H5061 warp H8359 woof H6154 wool H6785 linen H6593 anyth

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DELIVERANCE FROM A FUNGOID PLAGUE IN WHAT WE WEAR (LEVITICUS 13:47). The laws of uncleanness now move on to uncleanness in clothing. It is quite possible from what follows that in the conditions under...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Laws concerning those afflicted with leprosy. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Man is beset with troops of diseases on every side and all entered by sin. If not afflicted with an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 13:2. _Aaron or one of his sons_ were obliged to inspect every case of leprosy, the priests being best acquainted with the nature and progress of the complaint, and most concerned to keep th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Leprosy in a garment._ THE LEPROSY OF GARMENTS I do not suppose that this leprosy of garments and skins was just the same disease of that name which attacked the human system. It may have been; and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 13:47 LEPROUS DISEASE IN A GARMENT. Causes of such disease include various molds or fungi. If the disease spreads or does not go away, the owners are to BURN the item. If t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 13:1 LEPROUS DISEASE (v. Leviticus 13:2 and throughout ch....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Leprosy: its Discobery and Treatment SUGGESTIVE READINGS Gathering into view the circumstantial and concise description of the malady here given; the directions concerning leprosy may be thus analys...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LEPROSY IN CLOTHES (Leviticus 13:47-3). To account for the use of the name leprosy in this connection, an ingenious theory has been propounded that the same cause produced a like effect in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    As we get into chapter thirteen, God is dealing with the subject of leprosy, and the priests were given instructions on how to diagnose leprosy, a breaking out on a person's body. The examination of i...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 19:19; Acts 19:20; Deuteronomy 7:25; Deuteronomy 7:26; Isaiah

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How can the Bible say that leprosy infected clothing? PROBLEM: Leviticus 13 gives the laws concerning leprosy. In verses 47–59 there are laws concerning leprosy in garments. However, leprosy is an in...

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