If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
Leviticus 13:38 belongs to the laws regulating uncleanness and leprosy, to the cleansing and health instructions of Leviticus 11-15 and to the law of cleansing in Leviticus 12-15. Under that law the person had to be made visibly clean before the sanctuary's later cleansing with blood. These laws stand as an example for the remnant not to abandon health reform or other cleansing truths, but to become clean vessels prepared to receive the latter rain.
The verse concerns white spots, even white bright spots, in the skin of the flesh as a possible sign of leprosy, set forth in its utmost loathsomeness. Even slight symptoms led to quarantine until the case could be examined. Confirmed leprosy meant the person was regarded as unclean with permanent separation from home and friends.
The chapter is part of sanitary instructions about leprosy and other contagious or infectious diseases, giving especially good guidance for such diseases. It requires proper precautions even though God is the healer. The sanitation laws promulgated by Moses still stand at the head of sanitary law. The real value of observing such sanitary law is shown by modern results when rigidly enforced, and the enduring superiority of Moses' laws is conclusive evidence of the divine inspiration that guided him.
Leprosy is a horrible disease and a fitting type of sin as a terrible moral disease, even mortal sin. Like leprosy, sin is a widespread, infectious, and incurable disease from which no one of Adam's race is free without help from Christ. Like leprosy, sin consumes its victim, has its chief seat within, pollutes the fountain of life, and brings outward shame. Like leprosy, sin never gets well of itself and is contagious, so the sinner contaminates the atmosphere, introduces pollution where all before was comparative purity, and leads others to sin through influence and society, which is more to be feared than the infection of the leper.
Christ's blood cleanses those who repent and believe, and Jesus made leprosy a showing of his power to heal. Leprosy is as prevalent in the Holy Land now as when Moses wrote, and with other diseases of the same types as in scriptural days it bears witness to scriptural truth.
Leviticus 13:38 belongs to the laws regulating uncleanness and leprosy, to the cleansing and health instructions of Leviticus 11-15 and to the law of cleansing in Leviticus 12-15. Under that law the person had to be made visibly clean before the sanctuary's later cleansing with blood. These laws stand as an example for the remnant not to abandon health reform or other cleansing truths, but to become clean vessels prepared to receive the latter rain.
The verse concerns white spots, even white bright spots, in the skin of the flesh as a possible sign of leprosy, set forth in its utmost loathsomeness. Even slight symptoms led to quarantine until the case could be examined. Confirmed leprosy meant the person was regarded as unclean with permanent separation from home and friends.
The chapter is part of sanitary instructions about leprosy and other contagious or infectious diseases, giving especially good guidance for such diseases. It requires proper precautions even though God is the healer. The sanitation laws promulgated by Moses still stand at the head of sanitary law. The real value of observing such sanitary law is shown by modern results when rigidly enforced, and the enduring superiority of Moses' laws is conclusive evidence of the divine inspiration that guided him.
Leprosy is a horrible disease and a fitting type of sin as a terrible moral disease, even mortal sin. Like leprosy, sin is a widespread, infectious, and incurable disease from which no one of Adam's race is free without help from Christ. Like leprosy, sin consumes its victim, has its chief seat within, pollutes the fountain of life, and brings outward shame. Like leprosy, sin never gets well of itself and is contagious, so the sinner contaminates the atmosphere, introduces pollution where all before was comparative purity, and leads others to sin through influence and society, which is more to be feared than the infection of the leper.
Christ's blood cleanses those who repent and believe, and Jesus made leprosy a showing of his power to heal. Leprosy is as prevalent in the Holy Land now as when Moses wrote, and with other diseases of the same types as in scriptural days it bears witness to scriptural truth.