Leviticus 13:47 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; ”

• Leviticus 13:47 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The garment - Rather, The clothing, referring to the ordinary dress of the Israelites in the wilderness; namely,, a linen tunic with a fringe Numbers 15:38 and a woolen cloak or blanket thrown...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - 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 13:47 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  garment. Type of habits and ways seen by others. Compare Jude 1:23 .

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; The garment also - The whole account here seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by t...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in— After having spoken of the leprosy in human creatures, the sacred writer proceeds to that very peculiar species of the disorder which affected ga...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; The garment ... that the ... leprosy is in. 'It is well known that infectious diseases-...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - 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 13:47 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The garment also that. — Better, And if a garment hath. The fact that the same phrase, “plague of leprosy,” is used both in the case of garments and of human beings, and that the symptoms and wor...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  OF LEPROSY IN A GARMENT OR HOUSE Leviticus 13:47-59 ; Leviticus 14:33-53 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; whether it be...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - 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 13:47 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The apostle Jude, no doubt in allusion to this defiled state of the garment, speaks of the hatred that is to be shown to such as are spotted by the flesh. Jude 1:23 . Nothing can more fully indicate...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The garments also, that the plague of leprosy is in ,.... Whether this sort of leprosy proceeded from natural causes, or was extraordinary and miraculous, and came immediately from the hand of God,...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment; Ver. 47. The garment also. ] A plague not anywhere else read or heard of: being nothing li...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leprosy in garments and houses is unknown in these times and places, which is not strange, there being some diseases peculiar to some ages and countries. And that such a thing was among the Jews, can...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - 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 13:47 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;   48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a s...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Leprosy in garments and houses is unknown in these times and places, which is not strange, there being some diseases or distempers peculiar to some ages and countries, as the learned have noted. And...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Deliverance From A Fungoid Plague In What We Wear ( Leviticus 13:47-59 ). The laws of uncleanness now move on to uncleanness in clothing. It is quite possible from what follows that in the conditi...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - 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 13:47 - 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 13:47 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Leprosy in a garment. The leprosy of garments I do not suppose that this leprosy of garments and skins was just the same disease of that name which attacked the human system. It may have been;...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION LEPROSY IN CLOTHES ( Leviticus 13:47-3 ). To account for the use of the name leprosy in this connection, an ingenious theory has been propounded that the same cause produced a l...

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• Leviticus 13:47 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ordinances Concerning Leprosy.

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Colossians 3:3 ; Ephesians 4:22 ; Ezekiel 16:16 ; Isaiah 3:16-24 ; Isaiah 59:6 ; Isaiah 64:6 ; Jude 1:23 ; Romans 13:12

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• Leviticus 13:47 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Leprosy in garments and houses is unknown in these times and places, which is not strange, there being some diseases peculiar to some ages and countries. And that such a thing was among the Jews, c...

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