Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:37
But if the scurf be in his sight at a stay, and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; the scurf is healed, he [is] clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Be in his sight at a stay – Or, Does not alter in appearance.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The truth of the thing, and not the sentence of the priest, made him clean; and if the priest had partially pronounced one clean who was not clean, his sentence had been null. And therefore it is a fond and dangerous conceit to think that the absolution given to any sinner by a priest will stand him in any stead if he do not truly repent.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay,…. If in a few days, or in a short space of time after this, it should appear that the scall is at a full stop, and does not spread any further at all:
and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; which is a sign of health and soundness, and so of purity; yea, if it was green or red, so be it, it was not yellow, according to Jarchi, it was sufficient:
the scall is healed; from whence it appears that it had been a leprous scall, but was now healed, an entire stop being put to the spread of it; and though yellow hairs might have appeared in it, yet, as Gersom observes, two black hairs having grown up in it, it was a clear case that the corruption of the blood had departed, and it had returned to its former state:
he [is] clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; he was clean before, and is the reason why he pronounces him so; wherefore it is not the sentence of the priest, but the truth of his case that makes him clean; teaching, as Ainsworth observes, that the truth of a man’s estate, discerned by the word and law of God, made the man clean or unclean, and not the sentence of the priest, if it swerved from the law.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
But if, on the contrary, the eruption stood (see Lev 13:5), and black hair grew out of it, he was healed, and the person affected was to be declared clean.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(37) But if the scall be in his sight at a stay.Better, But if the appearance of the scall hath remained the same.
And that there is black hair grown up therein.Better, And if black hair hath, &c. If, in addition to its not spreading, the healthy colour of the hair has returned, it shows that the patient is cured of the leprosy, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. (See Lev. 13:31.) According to the adminstrators of the law, there had at least to be two black hairs, of such a length that the top could bow towards the root. If two hairs grew up on the healed scall, one black and the other white or yellow, or one long and the other short, the patient could not be declared clean.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 13:37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he [is] clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Ver. 37. Black hair. ] A sign of soundness. Quod sanitas in corpore, id sanctitas in corde, saith Bernard.