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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin,.... Or, if flowering it flowers (m); the man that has it on him looks like a plant or tree covered with white flowers, being spread all over him in white swellings, bright spots or scabs, as it follows: and the leprosy cover all the skin of [him that hath] the plague, from his head even to his foot;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall consider,.... Look wistly upon it, and well weigh the matter in his own mind, that he may make a true judgment and pronounce a right sentence: and, behold, [if] the leprosy have covered all his flesh; from head to foot, so that no quick, raw, or sound flesh appear in him: he shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But when raw flesh appeareth in him,.... Between the white spots, scabs, or swellings, or in the midst of them: he shall be unclean; be pronounced unclean, and be subject to all the prescriptions of the law concerning lepers.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall see the raw flesh,.... Or when he sees it, the person being brought to him to be viewed: and pronounce him to be unclean; or shall pronounce him to be unclean: [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean; made a man so in a ceremonial sense; [See comments on Leviticus 13:10]; it [is] a leprosy; wherever any quick raw flesh appears in a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or if the raw flesh turn again,.... Changes its colour, from redness, which is in raw flesh: and be changed unto white: and does not look ruddy as flesh in common does, nor red and fiery, as raw and proud flesh, but is white, of the same colour with the swelling or scab: he shall come unto the priest; again, and show himself, even though he was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall see him,.... Review him, and examine him thoroughly: and, behold, [if] the plague be turned into white; the raw flesh in the swelling, which looked red, is become white: then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague; that was supposed to have the plague of leprosy; but upon a review, and on this change of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides (n) you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah (o), it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And in the place of the boil there be a white rising,.... In the place where the boil was, a white swelling appears: or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish; white and red mixed, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Aben Ezra interprets the word "reddish", of the bright spot being mixed of two colours, or part of it so; and such a mixed colour...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if, when the priest seeth it,.... And has thoroughly viewed it and considered it: behold, it [be] in sight lower than the skin; having eaten into and taken root in the flesh under the skin: and the hair thereof be turned white; which are the signs of leprosy before given, Leviticus 13:3; the priest shall pronounce him unclean; not fit for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the priest look on it,.... Upon a person in a like case as first described, having had a boil, and that healed, and afterwards a white swelling, or a bright spot in the place of it: and, behold, [there be] no white hairs therein; not two hairs turned white, as Gersom interprets it: and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin; the bright spot...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if it spread much abroad in the skin,.... Upon viewing it on the seventh day, though it is not expressed, the swelling or bright spot; or "in spreading spread"; [See comments on Leviticus 13:7]; which Ben Gersom interprets, not of the skin of the flesh, but of the ulcer: then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; even though there are no...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not,.... Continues as it was when first viewed: it [is] a burning boil; but not a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall pronounce him clean; as clear of a leprosy, and so not bound by the law of it, though attended with an inflammation or burning ulcer.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or if there be [any] flesh, in the skin whereof [there is] a hot burning,.... Or "a burning of fire" (r): it is asked, what is a burning? that which is burnt with a coal or with hot ashes; all that is from the force of fire is burning (s); that is, whatever sore, pustule, or blister, is occasioned by fire touching the part, or by anything heated...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall look upon it,.... And examine it, whether it has the marks and signs of a leprosy or not, such as follow: behold, [if] the hair in the bright spot be turned white; which before was black, or of another colour from white, and is now, turned into the whiteness of chalk, as the Targum of Jonathan: and it [be in] sight deeper...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if the priest look on it,.... On the hot burning and bright spot in it, in another person: and, behold, [there be] no white hair on the white spot, and it be no lower than the [other] skin; why the word "other" should be supplied I know not, any more than in Leviticus 13:21; but be somewhat dark; or "contracted", [See comments on Leviticus...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day,.... When that is come, any time on that day; not needing to wait until the end of it, or till, the seven days are precisely up; the same is to be understood in all places in this chapter where the like is used: [and] if it be spread much abroad in the skin; in the space of seven days: then the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not in the skin,.... If, after being shut up, seven days, it appears that the spot is no larger than, when it was first viewed, but is as it was, and not at all increased: but it [be] somewhat dark; either not so bright as it was, or more contracted: it [is] a rising of the burning; or a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If a man or a woman hath a plague upon the head or the beard. Any breaking out in those parts a swelling, scab, or spot, on a man's beard or on a woman's head; or on the head of either man or woman; or on a woman's beard, if she had any, as some have had though not common.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall see the plague,.... The person on whom it is shall come or be brought unto him; and he shall look upon it and examine it: and, behold, if it [be] in sight deeper than the skin; which is always one sign of leprosy; [and there be] in it a yellow thin hair; like the appearance of thin gold, as the Targum of Jonathan; for, as Ben...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the priest look on the plague of the scall,.... As it may appear in another person, brought to him for inspection and examination: and, behold, it [be] not in the sight deeper than the skin; it do not seem to be got into the flesh, or lower than the skin: and [that there is] no black hair in it; or, "but no black hair in it"; for, as Jarchi...