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Leprous Beggars

Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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The pro-
gress and the effect of the disease are de
scribed in Job 2 : 7, 8, 12; 6 : 2 ; 7 : 3-5;
19 : 14-21.
There are two forms of the disease—
the tuberculated, incrusting the whole
person with ulcerous tubercles, and the
anaesthetic, making the skin mummy-
like—but under both forms
"Death lives," and the dis-
eased is a "walking tomb,"
aparable of death. There
was also a milder form of the
disease, the so-called white
leprosy, often attacking only
one limb, and generally cur-
able, as when "Moses' hand
was leprous as snow." Ex.
4 : 6. Notice also the cases
of Miriam, Num. 12 : 10 ; Ge-
hazi, 2 Kgs. 5 : 27; and Uz-
ziah. 2 Chr. 26:16-23.
Although the laws respect-
ing this disease which we find
in the Mosaic code are exceedingly rigid,
it is by no means clear that the leprosy was
considered contagious. The horror and

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disgust which was felt toward a disease so
foul and loathsome might be a sufficient
reason for such severe enactments, and
LET

strict seclusion was at all events an effect-
ive means of arresting the progress of
the disease by preventing intermarriage

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Leprous Beggars.

between lepers and the sound. The
leper was excluded from the tabernacle
and the camp, and when he was healed
his restoration to social intercourse with
his fellow-men was twofold, performed
both in the camp and in the tabernacle.
Lev. 14: 3-32. A house for lepers was
built outside Jerusalem on the hill of
Gareb—i. e., "the hill of scraping, "Jer.

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