44He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
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Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. …
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. …
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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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