a For there was the Seat of the Leproſie. 6 Shining like the Scale of a Fiſh, asit isin the beginning of a Leprofie. c A Diſtemper moſt frequent in Egypt and Syria, &c. known alſo among the Greeks | who note chat it was not ſo properly a Diſeaſe, as a Defilement or | Diſtemper in the Skin, whence Chriſt is not ſaid to heal, but ro ; cleanſe the Lepers thar came to him. And this Diſtemper is here
provided againſt, not becauſe it was worſe than others, but becauſe 1t was externally and viſibly Filthy, and becauſe of its infe&ious Nature, that hereby we might be inſtruted to avoid Converſe with ſuch Vicious Perſons who were likely to infe& us. d Not to the Phyſician, On 2s we now ſaid, it needed not ſo much bealing as cleanſing, and was rather a ceremonial Pollution than a Diſeaſe : and becauſe it belonged to the Prieſt to cleanſe him, and therefore to ſearch and diſcover whether he wasdefiled and needed cleanſing The Prieſt alſo was to admit to, or exclude from, the Sanftuary, and therefore to examine who were to be excluded. And the diſ. covery of this Diſtemper was not ſo difficulr that it required the Phyſicians art, bur the Prieſt, by experience, and the obſervation of thoſe rules might eaſily make it. 3 And the prieſt shal look on the plague e in the skin of the flesh, and when the hair in the plague is turned
white f, and the plague in ſight is deeper than the skin of his flesh g, it 5s a plague of leproſie : and the prieft shal | look on him, and F pronounce him unclean þ. + Heb gil
e ( 7.e« ) The ſignor appearance of the plague of Leprofie. And it | is obſervable, that the ſame ſigns of it Far given by Noſe bid, and (nee HO by the Learned Phyſicians in their Works. f And whea the Loprofic
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4 Tf che bright ſpot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in ſight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair
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5 And the prieſt ſhall look on him the ſeventh day : and behold, ;f che plague 1n his ſight be at a ſtay &, and
the plague {pread not 1n the skin, then the prieſt ſhall thut him up feven days more. : _
{ This Tranſlation is juſtified by the following Clauſe which is added ro explain it. Otherwiſe the words are and may be rendred thus, and or vine mits Own Color; the Hebrew word being uſed for Colour as well as for Sight. : :
6 And the pricit ſhall look on him again the ſeventh Eay : and behold, if the plague be ſomewhat dark ,, and thc plague ſpread not ſomewhat in the skin, the prieſt
+ Heb fhall | pronounce him clean: it is bet aſcab: andhe demſehim. $hall wash his clothes m2, and be clean-
I Which is oppoſed to the white Colour of the Leproſy. But the word may be rendicd, have contrated it ſelf, or, be reſtrained Or con- fined to its former place and bigneſs; and thus the Oppolition Jeems to be moſt clear tothe ſpreading of its ſelf, mentioned both in the foregoing Verſe, and in the following Clauſe. »» Though it was no Leproſy, but a Scab only : to teach us, that no Sin was 10 ſmall which did" nor necd to be waſhed by th: Blood of Chriſt, which wil the thing deiigned by all theſe waſhings. . ;
7 Bucif the fcab ſpread much abroad in the skin, at- ter that he hath been ſeen of the prieſt for his cleanting, he shall be ſeen of the prieſt again.
$ And if che prieſt ſee, thar behold the ſcab ſpread-
tHeb.fo- eth in the skin, then the prieſt shal F pronounce him un- ure Pim Ciean: it is alepiotie.
9g When the plague of leproſy is in a man, then he Sha] be brougiit unto the prielt 3
1 And the priett shal ſee 4z», and behold, ph ri-
ſing be white » inthe skin, and it have turned th&khat f Heb.:he white, and o there be + quick raw flesh p in theriling : quickning 1 To wir, with a preternatu:al and extraordinary Whiteneſs, as- of living Numb: 12. 54. 0 Or rather, or, the Copulative pur for the Diſjun&t- feſh. ive, as hath been nored before ; foi either of theſe were ſigns of a Leproſy, and one of theſe may ſeem 1nconliftent with the other; the former lign of white Hair ſuppoſing the Skin in which the Hair was to rem-1n, and the Jatter of {ive F/ejh ſup poſing the Skin to be conſumed by the Leproſy. p Which ſhewcd that this wa; not a ſuperficial Leproſy, but one of a deeper and more malignant Na- ture, that had eaten into the ve'y Fleſh, for which cauſe ir is in thenext Verſe called az old, or inveterate, or grown Leproſy.
11 It is an oid leproſy in the skin ot his tleth, and the prieſt ſhall pronounce him unclean, ane ſhall not ſhut him up, for he is unclean.
12 And if aleproſy break out abroad inthe skin, and the leproſy cover all the skin of himthat hath the plague. from his head even to his foot, whereſoever the prieſt looketh :
13 Thenthe prieſt shall conſider, andbehold, if the leproſy q have covered all his flesh r,he shail pronounce him Ciean that batb the plague 3 it is all turned white : hezs clean:
q(i.e.) The fign or appearance of the Leproſy : or the Scab is called » Leproſy,becauſe at firſt view it ſeerned to be fo tothe Prieſt, and to other beholdeis »r When it appeared in ſome one part it diſcovered theill humor which lurked within, and withal the ina- bil-ty of Nature ro expel it, bur when it overſpread all, it mani- feſted the ſtrength of Nature conquering the Diſtemper, and pur- ging outtheill Humors into the outward Parts.
14 But whenthe raw tlesh appeareth in him, r, he Shall be unclean. -