John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire." — Leviticus 13:52 (ASV)
He shall therefore burn that garment
That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts:
whether in warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin ,
wherein the plague is ;
all and either of them were to be burnt:
for it [is] a fretting leprosy; (See Gill on Leviticus 13:51):
it shall be burnt in the fire ;
which may teach both to hate the garment spotted with the flesh, and to put no trust in and have no dependence on a man's own righteousness, which is as filthy rags, and both are such as shall be burnt, and the loss of them suffered, even when a man himself is saved, yet so as by fire, (1 Corinthians 3:15) .