This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Ver. 59. This is the law of the plague.] A plague ordinary among the Jews, not so among Christians, who should therein see great cause of thankfulness. It is observed to have most infested the Jews upon their revoltings from religion, and that Christians took the infection of it from their country, when they went thither to recover it, out of the hands of the Turks. But what a lewd liar was that Egyptian mentioned by Phagius, who said, that both Jews and Christians were a foul discharge of most base and beastly people, followed with a foul disease, that forced them to rest one day in seven. A blister on that foul tongue, may it well be said. From Miriam's example, Num 12:10-15 the Jewish doctors gather that leprosy is a punishment for an evil tongue.