And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat dark, [and] the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Ver. 6. It is but a scab.] Such as may be "the spot of God's children." Deu 32:5 Sin makes wicked men the object of God's hatred, the saints of his pity; as we hate poison in a toad, but we pity it in a man.
And he shall wash his clothes.] The best cannot wash in innocency; he must therefore wash in tears. Isa 1:16 God also will set in and wash such with the blood of his Son.