Harmony of the Law - Volume 2

Take heed in the plague of leprosy. I am aware how greatly
interpreters differ from each other and how variously they twist
whatever Moses has written about Leprosy. Some are too eagerly devoted
to allegories; some think that God, as a prudent Legislator, merely
gave a commandment of a sanitary, nature, in order that a contagious
disease should not, spread among the people. This notion, however, is
very. poor, and almost unmeaning; and is briefly. refuted by Moses
himself, both where he rec...