Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 13:3

3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh, and when the hair in the plague is turned white , and the plague in sight is deeper than the skin of his flesh , it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean .

(i. e.) The sign or appearance of the plague of leprosy. And it is observable, that the same signs of it are given by Moses here and by the learned Physitians in their works.

And when the Leprosy came to its height, not the hair onely, but also the skin was turned white, as Exod. 4. 6. Numb. 12. 10. And this change of colour was an evidence both of the abundance of excrementitious humours and of the weakness of nature, as we see in old and sick persons.

For the Leprosy did consume both the skin and the flesh, as appears from 2 King. 5. 14.

Heb. make him unclean, i. e. ministerially and declaratively, in which sense ministers are said to remit si[illegible: 1+ letters]s, Mat. 16. 19. and to destroy nations, Ier. 1. 10.

Marginal references: Heb. pollu[illegible: 1+ letters] him.