It is an old leprosy. —Either of these symptoms showed that it was the reappearance of the old disease, and rendered quarantine ne…

It [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh
An inveterate one, of long standing and continuance, an obstinate on…

The plague of leprosy was an uncleanness, rather than a disease. Christ is said to cleanse lepers, not to cure them. Common as the leprosy was amon…