John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 13:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if it spread much abroad in the skin, etc.] Upon viewing it on the seventh day, though it is not expressed, the swelling or bright spot; or “in spreading spread”; (see Gill on “<031307>Leviticus 13:7”); which Ben Gersom interprets, not of the skin of the flesh, but of the ulcer: then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; even though there are no white hairs in it, nor is it lower than the skin, yet is not at a stand or contracted, but spreading: it [is] a plague; or stroke; it is one sort of a leprosy, and such an one as makes a man unclean in a ceremonial sense.

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