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href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/14.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) <span class= "bld">This shall be the law of the leper.</span>—That is, the manner in which an Israelite cured of his leprosy shall be purified and restored to the communion of the sanctuary on the day when he is pronounced clean.<p><span class= "bld">He shall be brought unto the priest.</span>—He is to be conducted from his place of seclusion (see <a href="/leviticus/13-46.htm" title="All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.">Leviticus 13:46</a>) to an appointed place on the borders of the camp. It was this coming to the priest to which Christ referred when He said to the leper whom He had healed, “Go, show thyself to the priest, and ofter the gift that Moses commanded” (<a href="/matthew/8-4.htm" title="And Jesus said to him, See you tell no man; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.">Matthew 8:4</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/leviticus/14.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/leviticus/14-2.htm" title="This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest:">Leviticus 14:2</a></span>. <span class="ital">He shall be brought to the priest — </span>Not to the priest’s tent or house, but to some place without the camp, or city, where the priest should appoint to meet him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/leviticus/14.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>14:1-9 The priests could not cleanse the lepers; but when the Lord removed the plague, various rules were to be observed in admitting them again to the ordinances of God, and the society of his people. They represent many duties and exercises of truly repenting sinners, and the duties of ministers respecting them. If we apply this to the spiritual leprosy of sin, it intimates that when we withdraw from those who walk disorderly, we must not count them as enemies, but admonish them as brethren. And also that when God by his grace has brought to repentance, they ought with tenderness and joy, and sincere affection, to be received again. Care should always be taken that sinners may not be encouraged, nor penitents discouraged. If it were found that the leprosy was healed, the priest must declare it with the particular solemnities here described. The two birds, one killed, and the other dipped in the blood of the bird that was killed, and then let loose, may signify Christ shedding his blood for sinners, and rising and ascending into heaven. The priest having pronounced the leper clean from the disease, he must make himself clean from all remains of it. Thus those who have comfort of the remission of their sins, must with care and caution cleanse themselves from sins; for every one that has this hope in him, will be concerned to purify himself.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/14.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The leper was excluded not only from the sanctuary but from the camp. The ceremony of restoration which he had to undergo was therefore twofold. The first part, performed outside the camp, entitled him to come within and to mix with his brethren, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/14-3.htm">Leviticus 14:3-9</a>. The second part, performed in the court of the tabernacle and separated from the first by an interval of seven days, restored him to all the privileges of the covenant with Yahweh, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/14-10.htm">Leviticus 14:10-32</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/leviticus/14.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>2, 3. law of the leper in the day of his cleansing—Though quite convalescent, a leper was not allowed to return to society immediately and at his own will. The malignant character of his disease rendered the greatest precautions necessary to his re-admission among the people. One of the priests most skilled in the diagnostics of disease [Grotius], being deputed to attend such outcasts, the restored leper appeared before this official, and when after examination a certificate of health was given, the ceremonies here described were forthwith observed outside the camp.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/leviticus/14.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> Not into the priest’s house, but to some place without the camp or city, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/leviticus/13-46.htm" title="All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.">Leviticus 13:46</a></span>, which the priest shall appoint. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/leviticus/14.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>This shall be the law of the leper, in the day of his cleansing,.... Or the rules, rites, ceremonies, and sacrifices to be observed therein. Jarchi says, from hence we learn that they were not to purify a leper in the night: <p>he shall be brought unto the priest: not into the camp, or city, or house, where the priest was, for till he was cleansed he could not be admitted into either; besides, the priest is afterwards said to go forth out of the camp to him; but he was to be brought pretty near the camp or city, where the priest went to meet him. As the leper was an emblem of a polluted sinner, the priest was a type of Christ, to whom leprous sinners must be brought for cleansing; they cannot come of themselves to him, that is, believe in him, except it be given unto them; or they are drawn with the powerful and efficacious grace of God, by which souls are brought to Christ, and enabled to believe in him; not that they are brought against their wills, but being drawn with the cords of love, and through the power of divine grace, sweetly operating upon their hearts, they move towards him with all readiness and willingness, and cast themselves at his feet, saying, as the leper that came to Christ, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean", <a href="/matthew/8-2.htm">Matthew 8:2</a> <a href="/mark/1-40.htm">Mark 1:40</a>; and it is grace to allow them to come near him, and amazing goodness in him to receive and cleanse them. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/leviticus/14.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">This shall be the <span class="cverse3">{a}</span> law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:</span><p>(a) Or, the ceremony which shall be used in his purgation.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. The ceremonies in the first stage of cleansing</span>, which restored the outcast to the common life of his fellows, were the following: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">1.</span> The priest formally examined the leper outside the camp, and made up his mind that he was clean. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">2.</span> An earthen vessel was brought with fresh water, and one of two birds was killed, and its blood was allowed to run into this water. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">3.</span> The other bird was taken and dipped in the vessel, with a piece of cedar wood and hyssop, which had first been tied together by a band of scarlet wool; and the leper was sprinkled seven times with the blood and water dripping from the feathers of the living bird. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">4.</span> The priest pronounced the man clean. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">5.</span> The bird was let fly into the open field. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">6.</span> The man washed his clothes, shaved his whole body, and bathed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="Text_Heading">7.</span> He returned within the camp, but not yet to his tent. Leviticus 14:2<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/leviticus/14.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The first act (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2-8</a>) set forth the restoration of the man, who had been regarded as dead, into the fellowship of the living members of the covenant nation, and was therefore performed by the priest outside the camp.<p><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2-4</a><p>On the day of his purification the priest was to examine the leper outside the camp; and if he found the leprosy cured and gone (מן נרפּא, const. praegnans, healed away from, i.e., healed and gone away from), he was to send for (lit., order them to fetch or bring) two living (חיּות, with all the fulness of their vital power) birds (without any precise direction as to the kind, not merely sparrows), and (a piece of) cedar-wood and coccus (probably scarlet wool, or a little piece of scarlet cloth), and hyssop (see at <a href="/exodus/12-22.htm">Exodus 12:22</a>).<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/leviticus/14-2.htm">Leviticus 14:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/14-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 14:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 14:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/14-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 14:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 14:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>