47The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
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And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 47-59)This is the law concerning the plague of leprosy in a garment, whether linen or woollen. A leprosy in a garment, with discernible indications of it, the colour changed by it, the garment fretted, the nap worn off, and this in some one particular part of the garment, and increasing when it was shut up, and not to be got out by washing is a thing which to us now is altogether unaccountable. The lear…
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