But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
Leviticus 13:35 belongs to the laws concerning leprosy and uncleanness given through Moses, to the laws regulating uncleanness and leprosy and to the sanitary instructions concerning leprosy including precautions for contagious or infectious disease. It describes a scall spreading widely in the skin after the person has been declared clean, showing the condition has returned or worsened and requires further examination. The laws show that God required practical precautions against disease, providing sanitary instruction including precautions for contagious or infectious disease. These laws of sanitation promulgated by Moses still stand at the head of sanitary law, and their enduring place proves divine inspiration guided Moses.
Leprosy is presented in its utmost loathsomeness as a fitting type and prefigure of sin as a terrible moral disease embracing every kind of evil, a type of mortal sin. Sin is the transgression of the law and all unrighteousness. Like leprosy, sin is a dreadful disease no human means can cure that never gets well of itself, from which people need to be healed, and Jesus made healing leprosy a showing of his power to heal.
Like leprosy, sin consumes its victim, has its chief seat within and pollutes the source of life, while also bringing outward shame. Like leprosy, sin spreads by contact and is contagious, so the sinner contaminates the very atmosphere, introduces pollution where all before was comparative purity, and leads others to sin by his society, an influence more to be feared than the infection of the leper. This visible uncleanness had to be removed before the sanctuary's distinct, blood-mediated cleansing; it was not itself the moral defilement of the sanctuary. The same loathsome leprosy is still as prevalent in the Holy Land as in scriptural days, which bears witness to scriptural truth.
Leviticus 13:35 belongs to the laws concerning leprosy and uncleanness given through Moses, to the laws regulating uncleanness and leprosy and to the sanitary instructions concerning leprosy including precautions for contagious or infectious disease. It describes a scall spreading widely in the skin after the person has been declared clean, showing the condition has returned or worsened and requires further examination. The laws show that God required practical precautions against disease, providing sanitary instruction including precautions for contagious or infectious disease. These laws of sanitation promulgated by Moses still stand at the head of sanitary law, and their enduring place proves divine inspiration guided Moses.
Leprosy is presented in its utmost loathsomeness as a fitting type and prefigure of sin as a terrible moral disease embracing every kind of evil, a type of mortal sin. Sin is the transgression of the law and all unrighteousness. Like leprosy, sin is a dreadful disease no human means can cure that never gets well of itself, from which people need to be healed, and Jesus made healing leprosy a showing of his power to heal.
Like leprosy, sin consumes its victim, has its chief seat within and pollutes the source of life, while also bringing outward shame. Like leprosy, sin spreads by contact and is contagious, so the sinner contaminates the very atmosphere, introduces pollution where all before was comparative purity, and leads others to sin by his society, an influence more to be feared than the infection of the leper. This visible uncleanness had to be removed before the sanctuary's distinct, blood-mediated cleansing; it was not itself the moral defilement of the sanctuary. The same loathsome leprosy is still as prevalent in the Holy Land as in scriptural days, which bears witness to scriptural truth.