利十三2~3　人的肉皮上若长了肿块，或长了癣，或长了火斑，……成了麻风的灾病，就要带他到祭司亚伦或亚伦作祭司的一个子孙面前。……若灾病处的毛已经变白，灾病的现象深于肉上的皮，这便是麻风的灾病。祭司察看了他，就要定他为不洁净。
　　麻风是很难分析的。可以说，麻风来自人的外面，是由麻风病菌进入人里面而引起；也可以说，麻风来自人的里面，因为除非麻风的毒素进到人里面，引起这疾病，不然是不会长出麻风来的。所以，麻风是由外在的因素加上内在的作用所引起。起因是来自外面，但作用是在里面。
　　麻风（利十三2）表征从人里面发出来严重的罪，就如明知故犯、任意妄为、定意顶撞神的罪（利未记生命读经，三九六至三九七页）。

　　Lev. 13:2-3 When a man has a swelling or an eruption or a bright spot on the skin of his body, and it becomes an infection of leprosy,...then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests....If the hair in the infection has turned white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than the skin of his body, it is the infection of leprosy. When the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean.

　　It is difficult to analyze leprosy. We may say that leprosy originates from outside a person, that it is caused by the entering into a person of the germs of leprosy. We may also say that leprosy comes from within, since a person cannot develop leprosy unless the element of leprosy enters into his being to give rise to this disease. Leprosy, therefore, comprises both an outside factor and an inward effect. The cause is from the outside, but the effect is inward.

　　Leprosy (Lev. 13:2b) signifies the serious sin issuing from within man, such as willful sin, presumptuous sin, and opposing God with determination. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 339-340)

　　麻风总是来自背叛。米利暗背叛作神代表权柄的摩西。她背叛是有原因的，就是摩西娶了古实女子为妻（民十二1）。米利暗因着背叛，就长了麻风（10）。她的麻风来自她的背叛。……在王下五章二十至二十七节，以利沙的仆人基哈西背叛以利沙行事的法则。以利沙不愿从麻风得医治的外邦人乃缦接受任何东西作赏报。基哈西却从那得洁净之麻风患者接受礼物；之后，乃缦的麻风就转到他身上。基哈西因着背叛也成了患麻风的。……乌西雅王背叛神关于祭司职任的条例。按照这条例，君王不能有分于祭司的职任。但乌西雅背叛这条例，结果就成了患麻风的〔代下二六16~21〕。在这三个事例中，每一次都是先有麻风进到背叛的人里面，然后从那人里面生发出来。
　　按照旧约，麻风是某种起因的结果，那种起因就是背叛神的权柄、神的代表权柄、神的法则和神的经纶。我们都必须承认，我们曾背叛过神的权柄，……背叛神的法则，……〔并且〕背叛过神整个的经纶。……在神眼中，我们都成了患麻风的。……麻风表征罪。圣经中头一个罪的事例，乃是撒但背叛神。……在撒但背叛以前，没有罪这样一个东西。罪不是创造出来的，乃是由背叛的天使长路西弗发明出来的。……所以，罪是背叛神，背叛神的代表权柄，背叛神的计划、安排、管理和行政。整体地说，罪就是背叛神的经纶。这背叛是由撒但自己发明、开创的。至终，罪来到人类中间，……既进到人里面〔罗五12上〕，就从人里面发出。结果，我们都是患麻风的。每当我们作了背叛神的事，这事就是麻风。
　　主耶稣在山上颁布了诸天之国的宪法，下山后作的头一件事，就是洁净患麻风的（太八1~4）。这患麻风者代表亚当堕落的子孙；亚当所有堕落的子孙都是患麻风的。撒但所发明的罪，借着亚当进到人类里面，使我们都成了患麻风的。现今，麻风产生了许多不同的罪行，就是那许多显出、表显出来的背叛（利未记生命读经，三九八至三九九页）。
　　人在肉皮上的肿块、癣或火斑，是麻风的记号，表征人表现于外的任性、与人不和、骄傲和高抬自己（圣经恢复本，利十三2注1）。
　　利未记十三章二十四至二十五节的光景，表征得救的人凭肉体行事，如发脾气、称义自己、不肯赦免人，乃是属灵麻风的征兆（利十三24注1）。
　　参读：利未记生命读经，第三十九篇。

　　Leprosy always comes from rebellion. Miriam rebelled against Moses, who was God's deputy authority. Her rebellion had a cause, and the cause was Moses' marrying a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). As the result of her rebellion, Miriam became leprous (v. 10).

　　In 2 Kings 5:20-27 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, rebelled against Elisha's practices. Elisha would not receive anything as a reward from Naaman, a Gentile who was healed of leprosy. After Gehazi received gifts from the cleansed leper, Naaman's leprosy was transferred to him.

　　King Uzziah rebelled against God's regulation concerning the priesthood. According to this regulation, the king could not participate in the priesthood. But

　　Uzziah rebelled against this regulation, and as a result of his rebellion he became leprous [2 Chron. 26:16-21]. In each of these three cases, the leprosy first entered into the rebellious one and then issued from within that one.

　　According to the Old Testament, leprosy is the outcome of a certain cause, and that cause is rebellion against God's authority, against God's deputy authority, against God's regulation, and against God's economy. We all must admit that we have rebelled against God's authority,...against God's regulation, [and] against God's entire economy....In God's eyes we all became leprous.

　　Leprosy is sin....The first case of sin was Satan's rebellion....Before Satan's rebellion there was not such a thing as sin. Sin was invented, not created, by the rebellious archangel Lucifer.

　　Sin, therefore, is rebellion against God, against God's representative, or deputy authority, and against God's plan, arrangement, government, and administration. As a whole, sin is rebellion against God's economy. This rebellion was invented, inaugurated, by Satan himself. Eventually, sin came into mankind....Having entered into man [Rom. 5:12a], this sin, this leprosy, now issues from within man. As a result, we are leprous. Whenever we do something against God, that thing is leprous.

　　When the Lord Jesus came down from the mountain where He decreed the constitution of the kingdom of the heavens, the first thing He did was cleanse a leper (Matt. 8:1-4). This leper represents the fallen descendants of Adam, all of whom are lepers. The sin that was invented by Satan entered into mankind through Adam and made us all lepers. Leprosy now issues in many different kinds of sins, that is, in many expressions, manifestations, of rebellion. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 340-342)

　　As signs of leprosy, a swelling, eruption, or a bright spot on the skin of one's flesh signifies man's outward expressions in unruliness, in friction with others, and in pride and self-exaltation. (Lev. 13:2, footnote 1)

　　The condition in Leviticus 13:24-25 signifies that a saved person's acting by the flesh, for example, his losing his temper, his justifying himself, and his not being willing to forgive others, is a sign of spiritual leprosy. (Lev. 13:24, footnote 1)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Leviticus, msg. 39