16Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
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Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. …
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. …
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. …
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. …
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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