Leviticus 14:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He shall be brought unto the priest— The priests, being instructed in the diagnostics of the leprosy, are now informed, what ceremonies and sacrifices were to be used for the purification of the leper, when it appeared that his leprosy was healed. The reader will observe, what we have before remarked, that these ceremonies were not used for the purpose of healing the disorder, but for the legal purification of the leper when healed; (see Leviticus 14:3.) and for this reason, instead of the words cleansing and cleansed in this chapter, it would be more proper to use purifying and purified, which would be equally agreeable to the original. The leper being excluded from the camp now, as afterwards from the city, the priest was to go forth to him without the camp, and there inspect him. When our Saviour, by his omnipotent word, healed the leper, he commanded him to go, and shew himself unto the priest.