Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:52
He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woolen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Verse 52. He shall therefore burn that garment] There being scarcely any means of radically curing the infection. It is well known that the garments infected by the psora, or itch animal, have been known to communicate the disease even six or seven years after the first infection. This has been also experienced by the sorters of rags at some paper mills.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He shall therefore burn that garment,…. That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts:
whether in warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin,
wherein the plague is; all and either of them were to be burnt:
for it [is] a fretting leprosy; [See comments on Le 13:51]:
it shall be burnt in the fire; which may teach both to hate the garment spotted with the flesh, and to put no trust in and have no dependence on a man’s own righteousness, which is as filthy rags, and both are such as shall be burnt, and the loss of them suffered, even when a man himself is saved, yet so as by fire, 1Co 3:15.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(52) He shall therefore burn.As this distemper could never be eradicated from stuffs, the garments which have once become possessed of leprosy had to be burnt.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
burn: Lev 11:33, Lev 11:35, Deu 7:25, Deu 7:26, Isa 30:22, Act 19:19, Act 19:20
fretting leprosy: Lev 14:44, Lev 14:45