VERS. XII.
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Ten men that were Lepers.
I. IT is provided by a Law in Levit. XIII. 46. That he that is a Leper shall dwell alone and without the Camp. How then came these ten to converse thus together? as also those four together, 2 Kings VII. 3.
f 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Other unclean persons must not live with him: i. e. Those that are unclean by other kind of defilements: which also is intimated by the Gemarists in these words: Shall those that have their issues, and those that are defiled by the dead, be sent out into one and the same place? The Text saith, They shall not defile their Camps, Numb. V. 3. to assign one Camp for these, and another for them.
The Lepers might be Conversant with Lepers, and those that had Issues with those that had Issues; but those that were under different defilements, might not converse promiscuously. Which confirms what I have conceived concerning the five Porches at the Pool of Bethesda, viz. That they were so framed and distinguished at first, that there might be a different reception for those that had contracted different kinds of defilements, and were there waiting to be cleansed in that Pool.
That there were certain places where they that were unclean by that Disease of the Leprosie were secluded, reason might perswade us: for it were an inhumane thing to cast