Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Leviticus 14

Lev 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;

As a type of Gospel salvation the points are:

1. The leper does nothing (Romans 4:4, 5);
2. the priest seeks the leper, not the leper the priest (Luke 19:10);
3. "with-out shedding of blood is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22);
4. "and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain" (1 Corinthians 15:17).

Lev 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

two birds

The bird slain, and the live bird, dipped in blood and released, present the two aspects of salvation in Romans 4:25; "delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification."

cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop

Num 19:6; Heb 9:19.

Lev 14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

earthen vessel

The earthen vessel typifies the humanity of Christ, as the running water typifies the Holy Spirit as the "Spirit of life" (Romans 8:2); "put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit" (1 Peter 3:18).

Lev 14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

meat [See also Lev 14:20, 21, 31.]

Literally meal.

one log

One log =.96 pts.; also Lev 14:12, 15, 21, 24.

Lev 14:12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:

the priest shall take one he lamb

Lev 5:18; 6:6.

trespass offering

Isa 53:10.

Lev 14:18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.

atonement [See also Lev 14:19, 20, 21, 29, 31, 53.]

See Scofield Exodus 29:33, note.

Lev 14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:

sin offering

2Co 5:21.

Lev 14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

whose hand is not able to get

Psa 72:12, 14.

Lev 14:34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

give to you for a possession

Gen 12:7; 13:17; 17:8; Deu 32:49.

Lev 14:36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:

empty

Or, prepare.

Lev 14:44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

fretting leprosy…it is unclean

Lev 13:51; Zec 5:4.

Lev 14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

break down the house

1Ki 9:6, 9; 2Ki 10:27; 18:4; Jer 52:13.

Lev 14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

all manner of plague of leprosy

Lev 13:30.