Leviticus 13:42

_AND IF THERE BE IN THE BALD HEAD, OR BALD FOREHEAD, A WHITE REDDISH SORE; IT IS A LEPROSY SPRUNG UP IN HIS BALD HEAD, OR HIS BALD FOREHEAD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

18-44 The priest is told what judgment to make, if there were any appearance of a leprosy in old sores; and such is the danger of those who having escaped the pollutions of the world are again entangled therein. Or, in a burn by accident, ver. Leviticus 13:24. The burning of strife and contention often occasions the rising and breaking out of that corruption, which proves that men are unclean. Human life lies exposed to many grievances. With what troops of diseases are we beset on every side; and thy all entered by sin! If the constitution be healthy, and the body lively and easy, we are bound to glorify God with our bodies. Particular note was taken of the leprosy, if in the head. If the leprosy of sin has seized the head; if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles, which support wicked practices, are embraced, it is utter uncleanness, from which few are cleansed. Soundness in...

SORE - Rather, stroke. It is the same word which elsewhere in this and the next chapter is rendered plague....

EXPOSITION UNCLEANNESS DERIVED FROM LEPROSY OR CONTACT WITH LEPERS AND LEPROUS THINGS (Leviticus 13:1, Leviticus 14:1). A third cause of uncleanness is found in a third class of offensive or repulsive objects. There is no disease which produces so foul an appearance in the human form as leprosy. There was, therefore, no disease so suitable for creating ceremonial, because representing spiritual, uncleanness. The name leprosy has been made to cover a number of diseases similar but not identical in character. There are many spurious forms of leprosy, and many diseases akin to leprosy which do not

AND IF THERE BE,.... Or, "but if there be", or, "when there shall be" y, or shall appear to be: IN THE BALD HEAD, OR IN THE BALD FOREHEAD, A WHITE REDDISH SORE; white and red mixed, as the Targum of Jonathan, having something of both colours, neither a clear white nor thorough red; though, according to Bochart, it should be rendered "a white sore exceeding bright"; Leviticus 13:19; IT [IS] A LEPROSY SPRUNG UP IN HIS BALD HEAD, OR IN HIS BALD FOREHEAD; the signs of which were raw flesh and spreading; so it is said in the Misnah z, "those two sorts of baldness defile in two weeks, by two signs, by quick raw flesh and by spreading;'' if there was the bright spot and no quick flesh, then he was to be shut up seven days, and looked upon at the end of them; and if there was either quick flesh or a spreading, he was

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) The entire chapter treats of leprosy. It has been argued from the side of critics that the disease described here is not the one we know as leprosy, but only a similar disease of the skin. The arguments advanced to support this objection are silenced by Matthew 8:1. The man who came to our Lord had leprosy. The Lord told him “show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testi

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 one or two periods of seven days; if there is no further spreading, he is discharged clean. LEVITICUS 13:1. FIRST CASE. A ring or scab on the flesh. If there are white hairs more than skin-deep, the disease is present. LEVITICUS 13:9. RECOVERY OF CLEANNESS. The grounds for deciding as to whether the leprosy has run its course are as follows; if the hair is white and there is raw flesh, the patient needs no isolation for inspection purposes, the decision can be made at once; but if he is white all over, the disease is regarded as at an end; probably a case of leucoderma is in m

_Baldness in the back or front part of the head_(40 44) This is not in itself a sign of uncleanness, but if in either part a _reddish white plague_(_white reddish sore_A. V.) appears, he must be seen by the priest. The word -bald" in Leviticus 13:40 means bald at the back of the head, as distinguished from forehead bald in Leviticus 13:41....

A WHITE REDDISH SORE— Houbigant constantly renders this, _partly white, and partly red,_ which is the colour of flesh infected with leprosy....

g. THE SEVENTH CASE 13:40-44 TEXT 13:40-44 40 And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; _yet_ he is clean. 41 And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; _yet_ he is clean. 42 But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 43 Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh; 44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head. THOUGHT QUESTIONS 13:40-44 261. Is the lack of hair a punishment from God? 262. Two types of baldness are here described. What are they? 263. This would seem to be the simplest type