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**spake.** See note on [Leviticus 5:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/14) .

**the plague** = spot: mark too weak for person, though suited for house ([Leviticus 14:34](../../../kjv/leviticus/14/34) ): "plague" and "stroke"would be too strong in every case.
**leprosy.** Hebrew. *zar'ath,* from *zar'a* , to *strike down,* a leper being one stricken of God. One of the four points which Christ endorses Leviticus as being written by Moses: 1. Circumcision, [Leviticus 12:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/3) ([John 7:22](../../../kjv/john/7/22) , [John 7:23](../../../kjv/john/7/23) ). 2. Law of leper, [Leviticus 14:3-32](../../../kjv/leviticus/14/3-32) ([Matthew 8:4](../../../kjv/matthew/8/4) ). 3. The shewbread. [Leviticus 24:5-9](../../../kjv/leviticus/24/5-9) ([Matthew 12:4](../../../kjv/matthew/12/4) ). . Death penalty for cursing parents, [Leviticus 20:9](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/9) ([Mark 7:10](../../../kjv/mark/7/10) ).
Leprosy is the type of what man *is* by nature. (All the offerings relate to what man has *done* or *not* done.) It has reference to the evil "in" him ([Leviticus 13:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/2) , [Leviticus 13:9](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/9) ), not to the outcome of it. See note on [Leviticus 13:45](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/45) .

**pronounce.** Hebrew "shall make him". Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject) = pronounce or declare him to be. App-6 . Compare [Ezekiel 43:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/43/3) , &c.

**plague** = plagued person. Hebrew "shut up the plague". Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct). App-6 . The meaning is supplied in italics.

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* ( App-6 .)
**his sight** = its appearance.

**spread.** This is the criterion here for persons, as for houses and garments (Compare [Leviticus 13:55](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/55) , &c. 14, 44, 48). This is the criterion for our judgment of the antitype "sin" our old nature, to which our attention is called by the Figure of speech *Asterismos,* "Behold" (see App-6 ).

**white.** See note on [Leviticus 13:30](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/30) .
**quick** = living.

**shall not:** or, need not.
**is:** i.e. is undoubtedly, no farther proof being needed.

**break out abroad** = cometh quite out. Type of the sinner confessing his totality of evil then he is clean, [1 John 1:9](../../../kjv/1-john/1/9) , [1 John 1:10](../../../kjv/1-john/1/10) .

**when.** Hebrew "in the day", same as [Genesis 2:17](../../../kjv/genesis/2/17) ; see App-18 .

**is** = it [is].

**be** = it [be]. somewhat
**dark** = faint.

**plague:** better, "spot". See note on [Leviticus 13:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/2) .

**thin** = short. An infallible sign of leprosy. A long hair, even though "yellow", no sign. In other parts of the body the hairs would be short and white. Compare [Leviticus 13:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/10) .
**scall** = scab.
**even** = it [is].

**darkish white** = faintish, or dead white; a harmless eruption, or "tetter".

**rent.** See note on [Leviticus 10:6](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/6) .
**covering** = muffler.
**'Unclean, unclean. '**
Figure of speech *Epizeuxis,* App-6 , to emphasize the *condition.* Leprosy is the great type of sin: and teaches that the sinner is not only lost and ruined on account of what he has *done,* but on account of what he *i* s. The former needed atonement to procure *judicial* righteousness, but the latter requires a Divine act and cleansing to give him an *imputed* righteousness. The former we have through Christ's atonement, the latter we have from God in Christ. It is not enough to confess what we "have done "or "left undone"; there must be also the confession "there is no health in us". Compare [Isaiah 6:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/5) .[Job 40:4](../../../kjv/job/40/4) ; [Job 42:6](../../../kjv/job/42/6) . [Psalms 51:6](../../../kjv/psalms/51/6) . [Luke 5:8](../../../kjv/luke/5/8) , &c.

**without the camp.** [Numbers 5:2](../../../kjv/numbers/5/2) ; [Numbers 12:10-15](../../../kjv/numbers/12/10-15) .

**garment.** Type of habits and ways seen by others. Compare [Jude 1:23](../../../kjv/jude/1/23) .

**warp.** A. S. *wearpen,* to cast or throw = the longitudinal lines in the loom, through which the shuttle passes. Hebrew. *shathah,* to drink in. So called because of its *drinking in* the thread thrown by the shuttle.
**woof.** A. S. to weave in. Heb *'drab,* to intermingle. Hence used of what is mingled or woven in by the shuttle.

**fretting** = rankling, only of what is malignant: occurs only here, [Leviticus 13:52](../../../kjv/leviticus/13/52) ; [Leviticus 14:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/14/14) , and [Ezekiel 28:24](../../../kjv/ezekiel/28/24) .

**burnt.** Hebrew. *saraph.* App-43 .

**colour** = appearance. Hebrew eye. Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 : eye put for appearance.

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