John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 13:52

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He shall therefore burn that garment, etc.] That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts: whether in warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is; all and either of them were to be burnt: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; (see Gill on “<031351>Leviticus 13:51”): it shall be burnt in the fire; which may teach both to hate the garment spotted with the flesh, and to put no trust in and have no dependence on a man’s own righteousness, which is as filthy rags, and both are such as shall be burnt, and the loss of them suffered, even when a man himself is saved, yet so as by fire, (<460315>1 Corinthians 3:15).

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