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  13:7,8,22,27,36,51 
   The consideration of the circumstances will exhibit the
   importance and the propriety of the Mosaic ordinance on the
   subject of the house leprosy.  1.  Moses ordained that the
   owner of a house, when any suspicious spots appeared on the
   walls, should be bound to give notice of it, in order that
   the house might be inspected; and that person, as in the case
   of the human leprosy, was to be the priest, whose duty it
   was.  Now this would serve to check the mischief at its very
   origin, and make every one attentive to observe it.  2.  On
   notice being given, the priest was to inspect the house, but
   the occupant had liberty to remove everything previously out
   of it; and that this might be done, the priest was empowered
   to order it ex officio; for whatever was found within a house
   declared unclean, became unclean along with it.  3.  If, on
   the first inspection, the complaint did not appear wholly
   without foundation, but suspicious spots or dimples were
   actually to be seen, the house was to be shut up for seven
   days and then to be inspected anew.  If, in this interval,
   the evil did not spread, it was considered as have been a
   circumstance merely accidental, and the house was not
   polluted; but if it had spread, it was not considered a
   harmless accident, but the real house leprosy; and the stones
   affected with it were to be broken out of the wall, and
   carried to an unclean place without the city, and the walls
   of the whole house here scraped and plastered anew.  4.  If,
   after this, the leprosy broke out afresh, the whole house was
   to be pulled down, and the materials carried without the
   city.  Moses therefore, never suffered a leprous house to
   stand.  5.  If, on the other hand, the house being inspected
   a second time, was found clean, it was solemnly so declared,
   and offering made on the occasion; in order that every one
   might know for certain that it was not infected, and the
   public be freed from all fears on that score.  By this law
   many evils were actually prevented--it would check the
   mischief in its very origin, and make every one attentive to
   observe it:  the people would also guard against those
   impurities whence it arose, and thus the health be preserved
   and not suffer in an infected house.  These Mosaic statues
   were intended to prevent infection by the sacred obligations
   of religion.  Ceremonial laws many keep more conscientiously
   and sacredly than moral precepts.

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