Bedside Watchman THE LAW OF LEPROSY

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March 8th -- Leviticus 15
THE LAW OF LEPROSY

NOT only a leper, but any man having a running issue out of his flesh, was to be regarded as unclean till he was cured -- unclean in himself and defiling to others (Leviticus 15). All contact with him in any way was forbidden. Everything he used or touched was to be considered as defiling, whether saddle, crockery ware, chair, or bed (verses 4 .... 12); and any one touching any of these, was to be considered unclean for the whole day, and compelled to wash, both himself and clothing.The advantage of such a law as a hygienic protection, is self-manifest, but it is the spiritual significance we are in search of. There are moral lepers and men whose mouths are a fountain of uncleanness -- men comparable only to running sores in the community. "Avoid them", says Paul: "turn away" -- "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them". Their company -- their very touch -- is defiling. Men of God may be thrown into contact with them, as the Mosaic type contemplates: but they have a resort for cleansing which is also figured in the type: they bathe themselves in the water of the living word, and wait with a sense of contracted uncleanness till the next day, when sleep and prayer will bring a return of the purity that is native to the mind in which God dwells.

ROBERT ROBERTS, The Law of Moses, page 260