Leviticus 13:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean. ”

• Leviticus 13:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The disease here indicated appears to be that now known as Lepra commonis, the common White Leprosy, or Dry Tetter. It first shows itself in reddish pimples, the surface of which becomes white and...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising; If the rising be white. This BRIG...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - 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 l...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Or if the raw flesh turn again. — Rather, yet if the sound flesh changeth again and becometh, &c. As soon, however, as the patches of sound flesh resume the white colour, so that the whole bo...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE UNCLEANNESS OF LEPROSY Leviticus 13:1-46 THE interpretation of this chapter presents no little difficulty. The description of the diseases with which the law here deals is not given in a sc...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Test of Leprosy Leviticus 13:1-17 Leprosy was a sort of living death, involving exclusion from the fellowship of the living, and from the sanctuary. Consequently the process of restoration...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - 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 who...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Observe, everything here indicates the spiritual disease of the soul. It is an old disease. It is folded up in the heart, and is not merely skin deep. A sinner is full of wounds, and bruises, and put...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the priest shall see him ,.... Review him, and examine him thoroughly: and, behold, [if] the plague be turned into white ; the raw flesh in the swelling, which looked red, is become white: t...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the priest shall see him: and, behold, [if] the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague: he [is] clean. Ver. 17. He is clean, ] i.e.,...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - L. 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 signifi...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Law Concerning Leprosy. B. C. 1490.       1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, say...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Leviticus 13:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Dealing With Chronic Skin Diseases ( Leviticus 13:9-17 ). Leviticus 13:9-11 ‘When the plague of a suspicious skin disease is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest, and the priest sh...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - 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 ana...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The plague of leprosy. The cleansing of the leper I. The loathsome and ghastly spectacle of a leper. 1. A leper was extremely loathsome in his person. But let me remind you that this, fearfu...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION UNCLEANNESS DERIVED FROM LEPROSY OR CONTACT WITH LEPERS AND LEPROUS THINGS ( Leviticus 13:1-3 , Leviticus 14:1-3 ). A third cause of uncleanness is found in a t...

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• Leviticus 13:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ordinances Concerning Leprosy.

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