Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:57
To teach when [it is] unclean, and when [it is] clean: this [is] the law of leprosy.
To teach; to direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. So it was not left to the priests power or will, but they were tied to plain rules, such as the people might discern no less than the priest.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
To teach when [it is] unclean, and when it is clean,…. A man, his garment, or his house; for it respects them all, as Aben Ezra observes; which was the business of the priests to teach men, and they by the above laws and rules were instructed how to judge of cases, and by which they were capable of pronouncing persons or things clean or unclean:
this [is] the law of leprosy; respecting every sort of it, and which is very remarkably enlarged upon.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(57) To teach when it is unclean.This verse is intimately connected with Lev. 14:54, viz.: This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy . . . to afford instruction in the day of uncleanness, and in the day of cleanness: that is, to furnish them with instructions against the time when they would have to deal with these cases in taking possession of the promised land. The ancient authorities, however, insisted upon the literal rendering which is substantially exhibited in the Margin of the Authorised Version, viz., To teach concerning the day of uncleanness and concerning the day of cleanness: i.e., to instruct the people on which days this distemper may be examined and decided. Hence the ancient Chaldee Version of Jonathan renders it, That the priests may teach the people to discern between the dark days, when his leprosy is to be examined, and between the bright days. (See Lev. 13:2.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
REFLECTI0NS
PRAISES to the covenant GOD of all our mercies, that when our poor nature was leprous, and past all the power of recovery by human art and contrivance; GOD our FATHER pitied our lost and low estate, and sent his SON to heal us of our leprosy. Praises to that gracious and most merciful SON of GOD, who by taking our sins and carrying our sorrows, hath opened deliverance for us in his blood. And no less may we ascribe praises to the eternal SPIRIT, by whose gracious application of the Saviour’s merits and righteousness, all the leprosy of our souls is healed.
Dearest, and ever blessed LORD! may it be my happiness now, in being dipped, like the living Bird, in the blood of the slain, to mount up on the wings of faith and love to meet thee, thou LORD of my best affections, in the heavens. Rejoicing in the deliverance wherewith my GOD, and Saviour hath made me free. Oh! may every thought, every desire, every wish of my poor heart be the burnt-offering, my high priest will present for me before GOD the FATHER, in token of my renewed life. And when it shall please my GOD, to take down altogether the earthly house of thy tabernacle, which I now dwell in, where the spots and defilements of the leprosy of sin still appear; oh grant me that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens!
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
To teach. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read “and to”, thus preserving the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this member r (verses: Lev 14:54-57) without a break. Eight “ands” in all.
when. Hebrew “in the day”. Compare Gen 2:17, and see App-18.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
teach: Lev 10:10, Jer 15:19, Eze 44:23
when it is unclean, and when it is clean: Heb. in the day of the unclean, and in the day of the clean
this is: Deu 24:8
Reciprocal: Mar 1:40 – a leper Luk 5:12 – full
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 14:57. To teach when it is unclean and when it is clean To direct the priest when to pronounce a person or house clean or unclean. Upon the whole, we may see in these laws the religious care we ought to take of ourselves to keep our minds from the dominion of all sinful affections and dispositions, which are both their disease and their defilement, that we may be fit for the service of God. We ought also to avoid all bad company, and, as much as may be, coming within the danger of being affected by it. Touch not the unclean thing, saith the Lord, and I will receive you.