Leviticus 14:34-45
When Lev 23:10, Lev 25:2; Num 35:10; Deut 7:2, Deut 12:1, Deut 12:8, Deut 19:1, Deut 26:1, Deut 27:3 which I Gen 12:7, Gen 13:17, Gen 17:8; Num 32:32; Deut 12:9-10, Deut 32:49; Josh 13:1 I put the plague of leprosy It was probably from this text, that the leprosy has been in general considered to be a supernatural disease, inflicted immediately by God himself; but it cannot be inferred from this expression, as it is well known, that in Scripture, God is frequently represented as doing what, in the course of his providence, he only permits to be done. Exod 15:26; Deut 7:15; 1Sam 2:6; Prov 3:33; Isa 45:7; Amos 3:6, Amos 6:11; Mic 6:9 a plague Deut 7:26; Josh 7:21; 1Sam 3:12-14; 1Kgs 13:34; Ps 91:10; Prov 3:33; Zech 5:4 empty or, prepare be not made 1Cor 15:33; 2Tim 2:17-18; Heb 12:15; Rev 18:4 Lev 13:3, Lev 13:19-20, Lev 13:42, Lev 13:49 Lev 13:50 Lev 13:7-8, Lev 13:22, Lev 13:27, Lev 13:36, Lev 13:51; The consideration of the circumstances will exhibit the importance and the propriety of the Mosaic ordinance on the subject of the house leprosy. 1. Moses ordained that the owner of a house, when any suspicious spots appeared on the walls, should be bound to give notice of it, in order that the house might be inspected; and that person, as in the case of the human leprosy, was to be the priest, whose duty it was. Now this would serve to check the mischief at its very origin, and make every one attentive to observe it. 2. On notice being given, the priest was to inspect the house, but the occupant had liberty to remove everything previously out of it; and that this might be done, the priest was empowered to order it ex officio; for whatever was found within a house declared unclean, became unclean along with it. 3. If, on the first inspection, the complaint did not appear wholly without foundation, but suspicious spots or dimples were actually to be seen, the house was to be shut up for seven days and then to be inspected anew. If, in this interval, the evil did not spread, it was considered as have been a circumstance merely accidental, and the house was not polluted; but if it had spread, it was not considered a harmless accident, but the real house leprosy; and the stones affected with it were to be broken out of the wall, and carried to an unclean place without the city, and the walls of the whole house here scraped and plastered anew. 4. If, after this, the leprosy broke out afresh, the whole house was to be pulled down, and the materials carried without the city. Moses therefore, never suffered a leprous house to stand. 5. If, on the other hand, the house being inspected a second time, was found clean, it was solemnly so declared, and offering made on the occasion; in order that every one might know for certain that it was not infected, and the public be freed from all fears on that score. By this law many evils were actually prevented - it would check the mischief in its very origin, and make every one attentive to observe it. The people would also guard against those impurities whence it arose, and thus the health be preserved and not suffer in an infected house. These Mosaic statues were intended to prevent infection by the sacred obligations of religion. Ceremonial laws many keep more conscientiously and sacredly than moral precepts. take away Ps 101:5, Ps 101:7-8; Prov 22:10, Prov 25:4-5; Isa 1:25-26; Matt 18:17; John 15:2; 1Cor 5:5-6, 1Cor 5:13; Titus 3:10; 2John 1:10-11; Rev 2:2, Rev 2:6, Rev 2:14-16, Rev 2:20 without the city Rev 22:15 into an unclean place Job 36:13-14; Isa 65:4; Matt 8:28, Matt 24:51; 1Tim 1:20; Rev 22:15 Gen 18:19; Josh 24:15; 2Chr 17:7-9, 2Chr 19:5-7, 2Chr 29:4-5; Ps 101:6; Acts 1:20-26; 1Tim 5:9-10, 1Tim 5:21-22; 2Tim 2:2; Titus 1:5-9 Jer 6:28-30; Ezek 24:13; Heb 6:4-8; 2Pet 2:20, 2Pet 2:22; Jude 1:12 Lev 13:51-52; Zech 5:4 break down 1Kgs 9:6-9; 2Kgs 10:27, 2Kgs 17:20-23, 2Kgs 18:4, 2Kgs 25:4-12, 2Kgs 25:25-26; Jer 52:13; Ezek 5:4; Matt 22:7, Matt 24:2; Rom 11:7-11; Rev 11:2 into an unclean place Lev 14:41
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