40And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
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Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-46)We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev. 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his bald head (2 Kgs. 2:23); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. II. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any…
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