Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 13:55

55 And the priest shall look on the plague after that it is washed: and behold, if the plague have not changed his colour , and the plague be not spread, it is unclean, thou shalt burn it in the fire, it is fret inward, whether it be bare within, or without .

If washing doth not take away that vitious colour and restore it to its own native colour.

In the outside of the garment, which is here called the forehead or foreside, as being most visible, or in the inside of it. Some of the Jewish Doctors understood it thus, whether the garment was made threadbare by the leprosie, or by former wearing of it.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].