Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:59
This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy,…. The rules by which it was to be judged of; whether or no it was
in a garment of woollen, or linen, either the warp or woof, or any thing of skins; which include everything in which this sort of leprosy was:
to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean; either to declare it free from the plague of the leprosy, or as infected with it, and so accordingly dispose of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(59) This is the law of the plague of leprosy.That is, the above-mentioned regulations are to guide the priests in their decisions whether a garment or leathern utensil is leprous or not, and in their declaration of its being clean or defiling.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
REFLECTIONS
How gracious was the HOLY GHOST, thus, in shadow and in figure, to teach the church the leprous state she stood in before GOD, by reason of sin. And how very precious is JESUS our Great High brought forward to our view, thus appointed by GOD our FATHER, to whom the convinced sinner might show himself and get freed from his leprosy. Teach me thou blessed teacher, in what a leprous state I was born by reason of sin. Give me to see that nothing but the fountain opened for sin, and for uncleanness, in JESUS’S blood, can cleanse my soul. Lead me to Him by thy sweet influences, who alone can say, Fear not, for I am thy great Salvation. And when I am enabled to draw nigh his footstool, and to show myself before him, that he may search me, and try me; when under the deepest conviction of misery, I cry to the depth of divine mercy; JESUS, master; have mercy on me, oh? do thou hear, and answer, and cleanse me from my leprosy. And may I add, dearest LORD, this humble boon, and do thou in mercy grant it! that I may ever be found clothed in thy garments, and arrayed in thy covering. The LORD the SPIRIT give me strength to put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the Spirit of my mind: and to put on the new man which after GOD is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 13:59 This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Ver. 59. This is the law of the plague. ] A plague ordinary among the Jews, not so among Christians, who should therein see great cause of thankfulness. It is observed to have most infested the Jews upon their revoltings from religion, and that Christians took the infection of it from their country, when they went thither to recover it, out of the hands of the Turks. But what a lewd liar was that Egyptian mentioned by Phagius, who said, that both Jews and Christians were a foul discharge of most base and beastly people, followed with a foul disease, that forced them to rest one day in seven. A blister on that foul tongue, may it well be said. From Miriam’s example, Num 12:10-15 the Jewish doctors gather that leprosy is a punishment for an evil tongue.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Lev 5:3 – the uncleanness Lev 7:21 – the uncleanness Lev 14:2 – the law Lev 14:32 – General Lev 15:31 – Thus shall Lev 15:32 – General Num 5:29 – the law Num 30:16 – General Num 36:13 – the commandments
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 13:59. This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment The learned confess that this leprosy in a garment was a sign and a miracle in Israel; an extraordinary punishment inflicted by the divine power, as a token of great displeasure against a person or family. The garment suspected to be tainted was not to be burned immediately; for in no case must sentence be given merely upon a surmise; but it must be shown to the priest. If, upon search, it was found that there was a leprous spot, (the Jews say, no bigger than a bean,) it was to be burned, or at least that part of it in which the spot was. If the cause of the suspicion were gone, yet it must be washed, and then it might be used, Lev 13:58. This was intended to intimate the great malignity which there is in sin. It not only defiles the sinners conscience, but it brings a stain on all his employments and enjoyments, all he has, and all he doeth. To them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, Tit 1:14. And we are hereby taught to hate even the garments spotted with the flesh, Jdg 1:23. Those that make their clothes servants to their pride and lust, may see them thereby tainted with a leprosy, and doomed to the fire, Isa 3:18; Isa 3:24; but the ornament of the hidden man of the heart is incorruptible, 1Pe 3:4. The robes of righteousness never fret nor are moth eaten.