Leviticus 15

Leviticus 15:2

White in the skin - With a preternatural and extraordinary whiteness. Raw flesh - This shewed it was not a superficial leprosy but one of a deeper and more malignant nature, that had eaten into the very flesh, for which cause it is in the next verse called an old or inveterate leprosy.

Leviticus 15:5

All his flesh - When it appeared in some one part it discovered the ill humour which lurked within, and withal the inability of nature to expel it; but when it overspread all, it manifested the strength of nature conquering the distemper, and purging out the ill humours into the outward parts.

Leviticus 15:6

In it - That is in the place where the appearance of leprosy was, when the flesh was partly changed into a whiter colour, and partly kept its natural colour, this variety of colours was an evidence of the leprosy, as one and the same colour continuing, was a sign of soundness.

Leviticus 15:7

The raw flesh - This is repeated again and again, because raw or living flesh might rather seem a sign of soundness, and the priest might easily be deceived by it, and therefore he was more narrowly to look into it.

Leviticus 15:8

Unto white - As it is usual with sores, when they begin to be healed, the skin which is white, coming upon the flesh.

Leviticus 15:13

Dark - Or, and be contracted.

Leviticus 15:14

A plague - Or the plague of leprosy, of which he is speaking.

Leviticus 15:16

A hot burning - A burning of fire, by the touch of any hot - iron, or burning coals, which naturally makes an ulcer or sore in which the following spot is.

Leviticus 15:20

Of the burning - Arising from the burning mentioned, Leviticus 13:24.

Leviticus 15:22

A yellow, thin hair - The leprosy in the body turned the hair white, in the head or beard it turned it yellow. And if a man’s hair was yellow before, this might easily be distinguished from the rest, either by the thinness or smallness of it, or by its peculiar kind of yellow, for there are divers kinds of the same colour manifestly differing from one another.

Leviticus 15:23

No black hair - For had that appeared, it had ended the doubt, the black hair being a sign of soundness and strength of nature, as the yellow hair was a sign of unsoundness.

Leviticus 15:25

He shall be shaven - For the more certain discovery of the growth or stay of the plague.

Leviticus 15:28

He shall not seek - He need not search for the hair, or any other sign, the spreading of it being a sure sign of leprosy.

Leviticus 15:31

If the spots be darkish white - Or, contracted, or confined to the place where they are, and white.