If the bright spot be white in the skin of his
flesh
The Targum of Jonathan is, white as chalk in the skin of his
flesh; but other Jewish writers make the whiteness of the bright
spot to be the greatest of all, like that of snow; (See Gill
on
Leviticus 13:2):
and in sight [be] not deeper than the skin, and the hair
thereof
be not turned white;
though it be a bright spot, and be very white, yet these two
marks not appearing, it cannot be judged a leprosy, at most it is
only suspicious: wherefore
then the priest, shall shut up [him that hath] the plague
seven
days;
in whom the bright spot is, and of whom there is a suspicion of
the plague of leprosy, but it is not certain; and therefore, in
order to take time, and get further knowledge, the person was to
be shut up from all company and conversation for the space of
seven days; by which time it might be supposed, as Ben Gersom
observes, that the case and state of the leprosy (if it was one)
would be altered; and Aben Ezra remarks, that most diseases
change or alter on the seventh day.
