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I. PHYSICAL ASPECT.

1. White pustules — eat away flesh — attacking one member after another — at last the bones.

2. Attended with sleeplessness, nightmare, and hopelessness of cure.

3. A living death.

II. SOCIAL ASPECT.

1. Contagion.

2. Lived in a several house, or in bands at a distance from ordinary dwelling.

3. Went with head uncovered, crying, "Room for the leper."

III. RELIGIOUS ASPECT.

1. Excommunication — no communion with the commonwealth of Israel.

2. In every way a type of the impenitent sinner. For —

3. Sin is a living death; contagious, and separates from God.

(F. Godet, D. D.)

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KJV: And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

WEB: It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."