JP. XII. 27 But if theſcall be in his ſight at a ſtay, and that there & black hair grown up therein ; the ſcall is healed,
he « clcan,and the prieſt ſhall pronounce him clean g- g The Truth ofthe Thing, and not the Sentence of the Prieſt, made him clean ; and if the Prieſt had partially pronounced one clean who was not clean, his Sentence had been null. And there- fore it is afond and dangerous Conceit to think that the Abſoluti- on given to any Sinner by a Prieſt, wall ſtand him in any ftead if
he do nottruly repent. : 28 © If a man alſo, or a woman, have in the kin
of their fleſh bright ſpots, ever white bright ſpots-_
39Then the prieſt ſhall look : and behold, /f the bright ſpots in the skin of their fleth be darkiſh white d, it « a
freckled ſpot that growethin the skin : he is clean h Or, contrafed, or confined tothe place where they are, and white.
40 And the man whoſeÞ hair is fallenoff his head,
he is bald, yet is he clean. 41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part
of his head toward his face, he is forehead-bald : yer 5s
he clean. 42And if there be in the bald head, or bald fore head,
2 white reddiſh ſore, it is a leproſy ; ſprung up in his bald head. or his bald forehead,
7 Itis a ſign that ſuch Baldneſs came not from Age, or any Ac- cident, but from the Lep:oſy.
y .
42 Then the priett jhall look upon itz and behold. if the riſing of the ſore be whitereddilh in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leproſy appeareth in the
skin of the fleſh, | | 44 He #s a leprous man, he #s unclean, the prieſt
ſhall pronounce him utterly unclean : his plague #s in his
head. 45 And the leper in whom the plague zs, his clothes ſhall be rent &, and his head bare /, and he ſhall pur a covering upon his upper lip 2, and ſhall cry, Unclean, unclean ».
t To wit, in the upper and former Parts, which were maſt vi- ſible This was done partly as a token of Sorrow, Ezra: g. 3, 5. 706. 2. 12. becauſe tho this was not a Sin, yet it was aneffett of Sin, and 2 fore Puniſhment, whereby he was cut off both from Con- verſe with Men, and from the enjoyment of God in his Ordinan- ces; partly as a warning to others to keep at a due diſtance from him whereſ-ever he came; and partly, as ſome add, that it might conduce to his Cure by giving the freer vent to the ill Humors. But the expoſing ofthe affe&ed Part to the cold, would rather hin- der than further Evaporation. ! Anotherſign of Mourning, as ap- pears from Levir. 10. 6. God would have Men tho not overwhelm- ed with, yet deeply ſenſible of his Judgments. m Partly as another badge of his Sorrow and Shame, as Ezek. 24. 17, 22» Micah 3.7. and partly for the preſervation of others from his infeQtious Breath or Touch. » As begging the Pity and Prayers of others, and confeſ- ſing his own Infirmity, and cautioning thoſe who came near him, to keep at a diſtance from him. | 2
46 All the days wherein the plague ſhal bein him, he ſhall be defiled, he is unclean, he ſhall dwell alone, o*
without the camp pſhal his habitation be:
o Partly fr his Humiliation ; partly to prevent the Infe&tion of others;and partly to ſhew the danger of converſe with ſpiritual Le- pers.0r notorious Sinners. This rule excludes the Society of ſound Perſons, but not of Lepers. Sec 2 Kings 15. 5. 2 Chron.26. 21. pSo Numb. 12.14. and afterward without Cities and Places of great Concourſe, whereof we have Examples, 2 Kings 7.3. Luke 17. 12.
47 < The garment alſo that che piague of leproſy isin q, whether it be a woolen garment, or alinen gar-
ment
q Leproſy in garments and Houſes is unknown in theſe Times and Places, whichis not ſtrange, there being ſome Diſeaſes or Di- ſtempers peculiar to ſome Ages and Countries, as the Learned have noted. And that ſuch a thing was among the Fews, cannor reaſonably be Youbred ; for, if Moſes had been a Deceiver, as ſome have impudently affirmed, a man of his Wiſdom would not have expoſed himſelf to the disbelief and contempt of his People by gi- ving Laws about that which their experience ſhewed tro be but a Figion. r Theſe two ſorts are put by a Synecdoche for any other
Garments. 1 . 48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof « of linen or
- of woolen, whether in a skin, or in any | thing made of
Heb.
p———_y
| + Heb. skin: work of. 5 Alcarned Man renders it in the outſide or in the mide of it. Tf the Signification of theſe words,be doubtful or unknown now,as ſome of thoſe of the living Creatures and preciousStones are confeſſed to be, itis not material to us, this Law being aboliſhed; it ſufficeth that the Jews underſtood theſe things by frequent experience.
49 And if the plague be greenifh or reddiſh in the gar- ment, or in the skin, either in the warp, orin the woof, or in any thing of skin, it « a plague of lepro-
| FHeb. fh (> d : oft * weſeter in. 1, 20d forall be ſhewed unto the prieſt. firument, © $© And the prieſt ſhall Jook upon the plague,and ſhut
up it that hath the plague, ſeven days.
51 And he ſhall look on the plague on the ſeventh _ day: if the plague be ſpread in the garment, cither in the warp, or in the woof, orina skin, sr in any work that is made of a skin, the plague is a fretting leproſy,
it is unclean.
LEVITICUS.
52 He ſhall therefore burn that garment, whether |
warp, or woof, in woollen, or in linen,or any thing of kin, wherein the plague 5s: for it ;sa fretting leproſy, it ſhall be burnt in the fire.
53 And ifthe prieft ſhall look,and behold, the plague
be not ſpread in the garment, either in the warp, or
in the woof, or inany thing of skin :
54 Then the prieſt ſhall command that they waſh the thing wherein the plague is, and he ſhall ſhut it up {e- ven days more. |
55 And the prieſt ſhall look on the plague after that it was waſhed: and behold,if the plague havenot chang- ed his colour z, and the plague be not ſpread, it is un- cle2n, thou ſhalt burn it in the fires itis fret inward, whether it be + bare within, or without #. _ + Heb.
* Tf waſhing doth not take away that vicious Colour, and re- whethc; :7 ſtore it toits own native Colour. u» In the outfice of che Garment, be bald in which is here called the Forehead or Foreſide,as being moſt viſible, the head or 1n the inſide of it. Some of the Jewith Dottors underitood it thereof, thus, whether the Garment was made thread-bare by the Leproſy, or in th? or by former wearing of it. forehead