Levitico 13:37

37 Ma se vedrà che la tigna s’è fermata e che v’è cresciuto del pelo nero, la tigna è guarita; quel tale è puro, e il sacerdote lo dichiarerà puro.

Levitico 13:37 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:37

But if the scall be in his sight at a stay
If in a few days, or in a short space of time after this, it should appear that the scall is at a full stop, and does not spread any further at all: and [that] there is black hair grown up therein;
which is a sign of health and soundness, and so of purity; yea, if it was green or red, so be it, it was not yellow, according to Jarchi, it was sufficient: the scall is healed;
from whence it appears that it had been a leprous scall, but was now healed, an entire stop being put to the spread of it; and though yellow hairs might have appeared in it, yet, as Gersom observes, two black hairs having grown up in it, it was a clear case that the corruption of the blood had departed, and it had returned to its former state: he [is] clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean;
he was clean before, and is the reason why he pronounces him so; wherefore it is not the sentence of the priest, but the truth of his case that makes him clean; teaching, as Ainsworth observes, that the truth of a man's estate, discerned by the word and law of God, made the man clean or unclean, and not the sentence of the priest, if it swerved from the law.

Levitico 13:37 In-Context

35 Ma se, dopo ch’egli e stato dichiarato puro, la tigna s’è allargata sulla pelle,

36 il sacerdote l’esaminerà; e se vedrà che la tigna s’è allargata sulla pelle, il sacerdote non cercherà se v’è del pelo giallo; quel tale è impuro.

37 Ma se vedrà che la tigna s’è fermata e che v’è cresciuto del pelo nero, la tigna è guarita; quel tale è puro, e il sacerdote lo dichiarerà puro.

38 Quand’un uomo o una donna avrà sulla pelle del suo corpo delle macchie lucide, delle macchie bianche,

39 il sacerdote l’esaminerà; e se vedrà che le macchie sulla pelle del loro corpo sono di un bianco pallido, è una eruzione cutanea; quel tale è puro.