* The garment.
   This leprosy in garments appears so strange to us, that it
   has induced some, with Bp. Patrick, to consider it as an
   extraordinary punishment inflicted by God upon the
   Israelites, as a sign of his high displeasure; while others
   consider the leprosy in clothes (and also houses) as having
   no relation to the leprosy in man.  When Michaelis was
   considering the subject, he was told by a dealer in wool,
   that the wool of sheep which die of a disease, if it has not
   been shorn from the animal while living, is unfit to
   manufacture cloth, and liable to something like what Moses
   here describes, and which he imagines to be the plague of
   leprosy in garments.  The whole account, however, as Dr. A.
   Clarke observes, seems to intimate that the garment was
   fretted by the contagion of the real leprosy; which it is
   probable was occasioned by a species of {animacula,} or
   vermin, burrowing in the skin, which we know to be the cause
   of the itch; these, by breeding in the garments, must
   necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i.e.,
   corrode a portion of the finer parts, after the manner of
   moths, for their nourishment.  The infection of garments has
   frequently been known to cause the worst species of scarlet
   fever, and even the plague; and those infected with {psora},
   or itch animal, have communicated the disease even in six or
   seven years after the infection.

  Isa 3:16-24  59:6  64:6  Eze 16:16  Ro 13:12  Eph 4:22  Col 3:3 
  Jude 1:23