Leviticus 13

Leviticus 13:2

IT be in the skin] Shall give any suspicion, that it may grow to be a leprosy.

Leviticus 13:3

When the haire] Signes of a malignant and incurable leprosie, which are observed by Physitians also. First, when the haire groweth white in it. Secondly, when there is a pit or hollownesse: Thirdly, when it spreadeth abroad: Fourthly, when there is a difference of colour, between the quick flesh, and that which is stained with leprosie: pronounce him uncleane] To be severed from company, v. 46. Num. 12. 14. 2 Chto. 26. 21. and one who did infect with his very touch: see above Leviticus 12:2.

Leviticus 13:10

Quick raw flesh] Which was a token that nature had not strength enough to drive out all the malignant and evill humor, wherby the remainder within was putrified and past cure.

Leviticus 13:11

An old leprosie] Quite made up and perfect, Not shut him up] to make any further proof.

Leviticus 13:12

Abroad] Which in like diseases is a token, and cause of healing, nature shewing its strength in the expelling of those malignant humors, and abundantly disburthening her selfe of them.

Leviticus 13:13

Cleane] That is to say, touched with a sleight kind of leprosie, that is curable, and already in the way of healing, wherby others were no more polluted with his touch or conversing.

Leviticus 13:16

Turne again] That those biles grow generally over all the body.

Leviticus 13:22

It is a plague] of leprosie, for a leprosie is absolutely so called.

Leviticus 13:30

Yellow] Which is a true signe of a skall.

Leviticus 13:31

And that there is no] If there be one of the tokens of recovery, which is the plainenesse of the skin without any pit, but that the other signe is wanting, namely of the brown haire and naturall colour, opposite to the yellow and bad collour.

Leviticus 13:36

Shall not seek] This signe of the skal spreading is sufficient of it selfe, without adding the changing of the colour of the haire to it.

Leviticus 13:39

Be darkish white] The Italian hath it, Wrinkled up] or grown narrower, and not spread or grown broader: A freckled spot] a disease a great deale lesser than leprosie, and curable, being nothing else but a deformity and foulenesse of the skin.

Leviticus 13:42

A leprosie] Called by the Greeks Alopecia] caused by a skald, or by leprosie, or by some other inward disease, and is likewise for the most part incurable.

Leviticus 13:45

His cloths] In token of sorrow, Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22. Mich. 3. 7. Not only for the disease, but especially for being sequestred from holy things: A figure shewing what hurt excommunication doth to man in spirituall things; His head] see Leviticus 10:6 And shal cry] to give every one warning, that he should beware touching him, or comming neare him.

Leviticus 13:47

The garment also] This leprosie in the garments, and in the houses, Levit. 14. 33. was not like the infection of the plague in our age, which is nothing but some exhalation of theatre, of breath, of sweat, or some other excrement, which may be purified and cleansed diverse ways. But it was a putrefaction peculiar to those places and times, grafted into the very substance of those things rotting and gnawing them, and spreading abroad, as it were in a living body: And elsewhere there is no memory of any such evill.