Saturday 29 June Leviticus 14.33-57 Qn.6

‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house’ (35): We have seen leprosy attacking people, the clothes, now it was attacking the house. This time the priest also was the one to control and confirm that the house was unclean (37). He also had to order what should be done on that house (40). And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place (45): the danger had not left the house; the next step was to destroy the house, and all its materials to be thrown away from where people lived. This is like a man who resists and doesn’t want to repent his sin, with no more hope for him or her, but to be condemned and cast out (Rom 1:28, Heb. 6:4-6). In a like manner, if the house couldn’t get clean any more, the remaining solution could be destroying it completely. Cleanliness of a house could be likened to the cleanliness of a human being; all required a priest’s confirmation reports with sacrifices as recommended for the cleaning (48-49). Warning: See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God,; that no ”root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled, (Heb 12:15).