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We think, for example, of the leper who came to Jesus near the beginning of His public ministry in Galilee. The man’s affliction was a terrible one. The disease, which began as nothing more than little spots on the skin, progressed through the body till the whole became a mass of rottenness. This pa
Even though leprosy is almost unknown to us we must always remember that it is the disease ordained by God as a sign of sin. Just as leprosy rots away the body so sin rots away the soul. Just as leprosy starts out small but grows and grows, so also a little sin can grow and consume the whole body. T
Sing Psalter 233:1-3. July 11 Read Matthew 8:1-4 Leprosy in Biblical history was the most loathsome and feared disease imaginable. It not only was incurable at that time but, according to the law, it signified legal impurity, a sign and token of sin and spiritual corruption. Whoever fell victim to
December 7 Read Leviticus 13 Leprosy was that illness that most surely showed the effect sin has upon our spiritual bodies. Just as leprosy rotted away the body and rendered it unpleasant to the eye, so does spiritual leprosy corrode our souls. For a picture of what leprosy did to the physical body