SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:46
Todo el tiempo que la llaga estuviere en él, será inmundo; estará impuro: habitará solo; fuera del real será su morada.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 46. All the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled , etc.] Reckoned an unclean person, and avoided as such: he [is] unclean ; in a ceremonial sense, and pronounced as such by the priest, and was to be looked upon as such by others during the time of his exclusion and separation, until he was shown to the priest and cleansed, and his offering offered; he shall dwell alone ; in a separate house or apartment, as Uzziah did, ( 2 Chronicles 26:21); none were allowed to come near him, nor he to come near to any; yea, according to Jarchi, other unclean persons might not dwell with him: without the camp [shall] his habitation [be] ; without the three camps, as the same Jewish writer interprets it, the camp of God, the camp of the Levites, and the camp of Israel: so Miriam, when she was stricken with leprosy, was shut out of the camp seven days, ( Numbers 12:14,15). This was observed while in the wilderness, but when the Israelites came to inhabit towns and cities, then lepers were excluded from thence; for they defiled, in a ceremonial sense, every person and thing in a house they came into, whether touched by them or not. So Bartenora observes, that if a leprous person goes into any house, all that is in the house is defiled, even what he does not touch; and that if he sits under a tree, and a clean person passes by, the clean person is defiled; and if he comes into a synagogue, they make a separate place for him ten hands high, and four cubits broad, and the leper goes in first, and comes out last. The Persians, according to Herodotus f456 , had a custom much like this; he says, that if any of the citizens had a leprosy or a morphew, he might not come into the city, nor be mixed with other Persians (or have any conversation with them), for they say he has them because he has sinned against the sun: and there was with us an ancient writ, called “leproso amovendo” f457 , that lay to remove a leper who thrust himself into the company of his neighbours in any parish, either in the church, or at other public meetings, to their annoyance.
This law concerning lepers shows that impure and profane sinners are not to be admitted into the church of God; and that such who are in it, who appear to be so, are to be excluded from it, communion is not to be had with them; and that such, unless they are cleansed by the grace of God, and the blood of Christ, shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven; for into that shall nothing enter that defiles, or makes an abomination, or a lie; (see Corinthians 5:7,11,13) ( Revelation 21:27).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 45, 46 - When the priest had pronounced the leper unclean, it put a stop to his business in the world, cut him off from his friends and relations, an ruined all the comfort he could have in the world. He must humbl himself under the mighty hand of God, not insisting upon his cleanness when the priest had pronounced him unclean, but accepting the punishment. Thus must we take to ourselves the shame that belongs to us, and with broken hearts call ourselves "Unclean, unclean;" hear unclean, life unclean; unclean by original corruption, unclean by actual transgression; unclean, therefore deserving to be for ever shu out from communion with God, and all hope of happiness in him; unclean therefore undone, if infinite mercy do not interpose. The leper mus warn others to take heed of coming near him. He must then be shut ou of the camp, and afterward, when they came to Canaan, be shut out of the city, town, or village where he lived, and dwell with none but those that were lepers like himself. This typified the purity whic ought to be in the gospel church.
Original Hebrew
כל 3605 ימי 3117 אשׁר 834 הנגע 5061 בו יטמא 2930 טמא 2931 הוא 1931 בדד 909 ישׁב 3427 מחוץ 2351 למחנה 4264 מושׁבו׃ 4186
