Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Leviticus 14:57
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean; this is the law of leprosy, as it is contained in these two Chapter s.
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean; this is the law of leprosy, as it is contained in these two Chapter s.
11- 15. RITUAL CLEANLINESS AND UNCLEANLINESS. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1, Purgation for skin diseases; L...
TO TEACH. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and to", thus preserving the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in this member _r_ (verses: Leviticus 14:54) witho...
A summary of the cases dealt with in chs. 13, 14. Special sections have also their closing verses, see Leviticus 13:59; Leviticus 14:32....
THIS IS THE LAW, &C.— These verses contain a recapitulation of this and the former chapter, which, however they may be despised by some, yet discover to us the goodness of God towards the Israelites,...
THE LAWS CONCERNING THE LEPROSY OF HOUSES 14:33-57 TEXT 14:33-57 33 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 34 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a poss...
_AND IF THE PRIEST SHALL COME IN, AND LOOK UPON IT, AND, BEHOLD, THE PLAGUE HATH NOT SPREAD IN THE HOUSE, AFTER THE HOUSE WAS PLAISTERED: THEN THE PRIEST SHALL PRONOUNCE THE HOUSE CLEAN, BECAUSE THE P...
14:57 when (b-3) when (b-8) Lit. 'in the day of.'...
THE PURIFICATION OF THE LEPER. THE LEPROSY OF HOUSES When a leper has been cured of his plague, and has satisfied the priest that his cure is complete, he is required to go through a ceremonial purifi...
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...
TO TEACH WHEN IT IS UNCLEAN. — This verse is intimately connected with Leviticus 14:54, viz.: “This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy... to afford instruction in the day of uncleanness, a...
לְ הֹורֹ֕ת בְּ יֹ֥ום הַ טָּמֵ֖א וּ
The possibility of the restoration of a leper to health was recognized and provision was made accordingly. In the case of the individual, the ceremony was elaborate. The priest must first visit him wi...
_Be known when. Hebrew, "to teach in what day, &c.....This is the law of leprosy." (Haydock)_...
REFLECTI0NS PRAISES to the covenant GOD of all our mercies, that when our poor nature was leprous, and past all the power of recovery by human art and contrivance; GOD our FATHER pitied our lost and l...
The law concerning the leprosy of an house is the same as that respecting an individual; and the same cleansing must be adopted. Nations and families in this respect, come under the same character. Fo...
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...
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...
TO TEACH WHEN [IT IS] UNCLEAN, AND WHEN IT IS CLEAN,.... A man, his garment, or his house; for it respects them all, as Aben Ezra observes; which was the business of the priests to teach men, and they...
To _teach when it is unclean and when it is clean_ To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. Upon the whole, we may see in these laws the religious care we ought to ta...
[CLEANSING OF THE LEPROSIE.] 1 The rites and sacrifices in clensing of the Leper. 33 The signes of leprosie in a house. 48 The clensing of that house. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Th...
RESTORING OF A LEPER (VV. 1-20) Even a case of leprosy may be healed, though this is not frequently seen in the Old Testament. Miriam's leprosy was healed very soon after her infliction (Numbers 12:9)...
WHEN IT IS UNCLEAN, AND WHEN IT IS CLEAN: _ Heb._ in the day of the unclean, and in the day of the clean...
54-57 When that God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us by his grace, Ephesians 2:4; Ephesians 2:5, we shall manifest the...
To teach; to direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priest's power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might disce...
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...
FINAL SUMMARY. Leviticus 14:54 “This is the law for all manner of plague of leprous disease, even for an itch, and for the mould of a garment, and for a house, and for a lump, and for a scab, and f...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning cleansing of lepers. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: As the leper was cleansed from his fearful malady through the water and the blood, so Christ comes into the soul fo...
Leviticus 14:3. _The plague of leprosy._ This loathsome disease rendered the body torpid, and severely depressed the spirits, as is affirmed by our learned travellers in the east. It commences with wh...
_Leprosy in a house._ LEPROSY OF HOUSE AND GARMENTS (see also Leviticus 13:49):--Few subjects have proved more perplexing to the student of Scripture than this. That human dwellings and garments shou...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 14:33 These laws regarding leprous disease in houses prepare for the time when Israel will settle in Canaan and live in houses. Houses may become infected with DISEASE—thin...
Leprosy Cleansed SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 14:2.—In the day of his cleansing. Remedy and respite came to the pitiable leper. Although his case seemed forlorn and dismal—unclean, and an outcast—ye...
EXPOSITION THE LEPROSY OF A HOUSE, AND ITS CLEANSING (Leviticus 14:33-3). The subject of leprosy in houses must be regarded from the same point of view as that of leprosy in clothes. The regulations r...
In chapter fourteen it begins with very fascinating words, And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing (Leviticus 14:1-2): Interesting, indee...
Deuteronomy 24:8; Ezekiel 44:23; Jeremiah 15:19; Leviticus 10:10...
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 disce...