The leper was to carry with him the usual signs of mourning for the dead. Compare Leviticus 10:6 and the marginal note.

The leper was a livi…

His clothes shall be rent. — As leprosy was regarded as a visitation from God for sin committed by the person so afflicte…

And the leper in whom the plague [is] ;
Meaning not he only that has the plague of leprosy in his head, but every so…

When the priest had pronounced the leper unclean, it halted his activities in the world, cut him off from his friends and relatives, and ruined all…