”Handling Disease”
DISCUSSION
Leviticus 14-15 deals not with the cure of leprosy, but with
the ceremonies affecting the reception of the healed person back into the
communion with the covenant people and his re-admission to the status that he
formerly held in the community and within his family. These complicated rituals
are admittedly very ancient and their appearance here is altogether consistent
with their having been included here, at God's command, by Moses himself.
Medical knowledge was almost unknown at this time. This meant that God had to warn the people
about certain diseases and other uncleanness that the health of the nation
might be protected.
If God is concerned
about our physical wellbeing, can we not see how much He is concerned with our
spiritual wellbeing? God, through the
Bible, outlines how to cure our spiritual diseases. "The
fact that leprosy is dealt with so elaborately indicates that this particularly
loathsome and intractable disease is to be regarded as a type of that
indwelling sin in which all the ills and afflictions of mankind have their
cause and origin." (Allis) Neither sin
nor plague can be dealt with except
through God's wisdom in the Bible.
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