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 like clothes now-a-days infected with the plague, but far more strange and dangerous; whether it did spread or fret inward, the garment was to be burnt with fire. This signified that all instruments of idolatry, or of any other sin, are to be destroyed and made away. As the law commandeth, "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire." Deu 7:25-26 And Jude alludeth to it, when he biddeth us "save some with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." Jdg 1:23 See Isa 30:22 Acts 19:19. Justiciaries also shall one day find, that though to the world-ward they "wash themselves with snow water, and make their hands never so clean; yet God will plunge them in the ditch, and their own clothes shall make them to be abhorred." Job 9:30-31