10And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. …
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)I. Concerning the plague of leprosy we may observe in general, 1. That it was rather an uncleanness than a disease; or, at least, so the law considered it, and therefore employed not the physicians but the priests about it. Christ is said to cleanse lepers, not to cure them. We do not read of any that died of the leprosy, but it rather buried them alive, by rendering them unfit for conversation wi…
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