John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 13:44

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean, etc.] And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; as in any other case of leprosy: his plague [is] in his head; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles, and are therefore, like the leper, to be avoided and rejected from the communion of the saints, (<560310>Titus 3:10); and shows that men are accountable for their principles as well as practices, and liable to be punished for them.

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