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“When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Colour, and so forth Hebrew “a tumour, abscess, or white spot,” which are the three marks of leprosy. Calmet.—Leprosy. The leprosy was a figure of sin: and the observances prescribed in this and the following chapter, intimate what ought spiritually to be done, in order to be delivered from so great an evil, or preserved from it. Challoner.—The authority of the priests in the new law to bind or loose sins, was hereby prefigured. Saint John Chrysostom de Sacerd. 3. Worthington.
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