Scripture
Leviticus 14
4 passages from 4 books in the Christian Reader library reference Leviticus 14.
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As the ceremonies of the law had not yet been repealed, Christ did not wish that they should be despised or neglected. Now, God had commanded in the law that, if any man had been cleansed from leprosy, he should present himself to the priest with a sacrifice of thanksgiving, (Le…
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14. Show yourselves to the priests This reply was equivalent to saying, ‘You are clean;’ for we know that the discernment of leprosy belonged to the priests, who were enjoined in the law to distinguish between the clean and the unclean, (Leviticus 14:2.) Thus Christ preserves th…
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An ulcer in the flesh is more easily cured than one in the lungs; a disease that is inward cannot be so well reached; yes, it is not only in us, but it is riveted in us, it is gotten into the flesh and spirit, as if it were one with us, as the leopard's spots and the Ethiopian's…
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Sin is a leprous spot. It makes everything we touch unclean: we read, when the leprosy did spread in the walls of the house, the priests commanded them to take away the stones in the wall, in which the plague was, and take other stones, and put in the place of those stones, and…
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