Leviticus 14

Leviticus 14:2

OF his cleansing] Of the ceremoniall expiation and cleansing, which was to be done after the disease was cured, to receive him that was leprous again into the fellowship of the people: A figure of the orders of the Ecclesiasticall discipline, in restoring of them again which are penitent; and had been sequestred for some sin; He shall be brought] Let there be a place without the campe, for the Priest to go unto, and let him that was leprous be brought thither unto him to be searched and looked upon.

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And clean] Of a kind that is unclean, see Leviticus 11:13 Cedar wood] the Jews say that of these three things, there was a sprinkling brush made, namely, the brush of hysop, the handle of cedar wood, and the binding of a thred of scarlet die.

Leviticus 14:5

Running water] Taken out of a spring, or a running streame, not out of a well, nor of rain-water. In signe of the water of life, which is spirituall, and effectuall to obtaine Gods grace and favour, through Christ, John 4:10.

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Let the living] In signe of liberty restored to the leper, which was cleansed.

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May be cleane] The Italian hath it, Shall lee cleane] declared fitting to converse with other men; Out of his] Hence it appeareth that there was some common house or tent in the camp, for them who were first shut up for a triall, and for them which were afterwards restored, after they were cured.

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He shall shave] A ceremony used in cleansings, Numbers 8:7. Deut. 21 12: a signe of casting away all remainders of malice and filthinesse, James 1:21.

Leviticus 14:10

Three tenth deales] Of an Ephha, cald Omers, Exodus 16:36 Mingled] or lneaded, og a measure sor liquid things wherof ten made a Hin, Exodus 29:40.

Leviticus 14:12

Per a trespasse offering] Not that there were any trespasse in the disease it self, but only misery. But sin being the cause of all these diseases, God would have together with the cleansing of the body, the purificatiō of the soule to be also sought for, by meanes of this sacrifice; and besides these diseases being figures of the in〈…〉 of the soul, these ceremoniall sacrifices represented likewise the internall expiation. Now amongst these three offered things, one of the lambs, v. 10. was for a meat offering the other lamb for a burnt offering, v. 〈◊〉. and the ewe for the sin offering, v. 19. females being also admitted for such sacrifices, Levit. 4 28.

Leviticus 14:13

In the place] Namely, in the court; For as the] Leviticus 7:7. For these two sacrifices being in the same kind and degree of holinesse, they ought also to be offered in the same place.

Leviticus 14:15

Of oyle] So the bloud and the oyle were joyned together, Exodus 29:4; Exodus 29:21. For to figure the two parts of true spirituall purification, namely the remission of sins, by vertue of Christs bloud, and the renewing of man by the spirit of regeneration.

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Before the] Before the great curtain drawn before the sanctuary, where the Arke was, the peculiar place of Gods presence, Leviticus 4:6.

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Upon the bloud] Upon the same part of the body upon which the bloud was laid.

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That which pertaineth] See v. 10.

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In a house] See upon Leviticus 13:47.

Leviticus 14:36

That all that is] Before the Priest have judged of it, the house could not pollute the stuffe, nor the persons, and therefore the sore being yet uncertaine, it is good to empty the house, for feare lest thé houshold stufle be also comprehended within the pollution of it, when the Priest shall pronounce the sentence. A law of equity and instruction, to teach us to prevent Gods last judgement, sequestring ones selfe betimes from the contagion of sinners, and also to teach us that God will passe over, and forgive the sins and faults of his children, which they commit through meere ignorance: but not those trespasses which they commit against their consciences, and expresse manifestation of his will; Be not] May not be handled without infecting all them that touch it, and must be purified before it may be put to any use.

Leviticus 14:37

With hllow strakès] These are the same tokens as were for the leprosie in men persons, Levitic. 13. 3.

Leviticus 14:40

In an unclean place] Upon the dunghill or into the sink, where all unclean things were cast; being contrary and opposite to a cleane place, Leviticus 4:12.