利十四36　祭司进去察看灾病以前，要吩咐人把房子搬空……。
　　39~40　第七天，祭司要回去察看，灾病若在房子的墙上发散，就要吩咐人把那有灾病的石头挖出来，扔在城外不洁净之处。
　　利未记十四章的房屋预表召会作我们的房屋，我们的家；房屋里的麻风表征召会中的罪行和邪恶（33~48）。……〔三十六节下半〕表征主或使徒来察看。这种察看不是为着定罪，乃是一种恩典为着使人得医治。……〔三十九至四十节〕表征经过一段完整时期的观察后，召会的难处若还在发散，就要把卷入难处的信徒，从召会的交通中挪开，视为不洁，像外人一样（参林前五）。这就是说，当召会患了某种疾病，长老们该先观察那光景。倘若难处越趋恶化，难处的源头— 一个或几个牵涉到那疾病的信徒—就该从召会的交通中挪开，以阻止疾病的扩散，并要消除那疾病（利未记生命读经，四四九至四五二页）。

　　Lev. 14:36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the infection...

　　39-40 ...The priest shall return on the seventh day and inspect it....If the infection has spread in the walls of the house, then the priest shall command that they take out the stones on which the infection is and throw them away outside the city into an unclean place.

　　The house in Leviticus 14...typifies the church as our house, our home, and the leprosy in a house signifies sins and evils in the church (vv. 33-48)....[Verse 36b] signifies that the Lord or the apostle comes to examine. This kind of examination is not a matter of condemnation; rather, it is a kind of grace for healing....[Leviticus 14:39-40] signifies that after the observation of a complete period of time, if the problem of the church is still spreading, the believer or believers involved in the problem should be removed from the fellowship of the church and be considered unclean, like the outsiders (cf. 1 Cor. 5). This means that when the church is sick of a certain disease, the elders should first observe the situation. If the problem is becoming worse, the source of the problem—the believer or believers who have become involved in the disease—should be removed from the fellowship, the communication, of the church in order to stop the spread of the disease and to eliminate the disease. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 385, 387-388)

　　用别的石头代替那挖出来的石头，表征用别的信徒填补空隙〔利十四42上〕。当召会有麻风灾病的时候，往往需要把卷入难处的圣徒从召会的交通中挪开。这会产生空隙，我们该寻求用别的信徒填补这空隙。
　　“要另用灰泥墁房子”（42下）……表征用对主恩典工作的新经历，来更新召会。……我们需要在召会生活中有新的起头，就是用对主恩典工作的新经历来更新召会。这……乃是以新的方式带进基督的丰富。倘若我们……只是按律法把一些人挪开并以别的来顶替，就会使召会变成空的，因而使召会受害更多。所以带领的人需要祷告，或者带着禁食，使召会在对主恩典工作的经历里，有新的得着。这样，召会生活就会得着更新，就是用新的灰泥重新墁过，使众肢体因更新的召会生活而快乐。
　　“他挖出石头，刮了房子，墁了以后，灾病若在房子里再次发作，祭司就要进去察看，灾病若在房子里发散，这就是房内恶性的麻风；房子是不洁净了。他就要拆毁房子，把石头、木头、灰泥都搬到城外不洁净之处。”（43~45）这表征召会在经过对付后，若再有厉害的罪发生，整个召会就要拆毁。这是最可怜的。一个召会的光景若到了无可救药的地步，那个召会就该结束。
　　“房子墁了以后，祭司若进去察看，见灾病在房内没有发散，就要定房子为洁净，因为灾病已经消除。”（48）这表征召会对主恩典的工作有新的经历，因而得着更新之后，罪若没有扩散，召会就洁净，没有问题了。
　　四十九至五十一节启示，染麻风的房子得洁净，与人患麻风得洁净的方式一样。……〔五十二节〕表征全召会需要凭基督永远有功效的宝血，和祂永远的活灵得洁净。……房子洁净了，表征召会完全洁净，得以成为神与人相互的居所（利未记生命读经，四五三至四五四、四五六至四五八页）。
　　参读：利未记生命读经，第四十四篇。

　　Putting other stones in the place of the removed stones signifies the using of other believers to fill up the gap [Lev. 14:42a]. When the church becomes sick with leprosy, it often becomes necessary to remove from the fellowship of the church the saints who are involved in the problem. This will create a gap, and we should seek to fill this gap with other believers.

　　[The replastering of the house (v. 42b)] signifies the renewing of the church with new experiences of the Lord's gracious works.

　　We need to have a new start in the church life, that is, to renew the church with new experiences of the Lord's gracious works...[by] bringing in the riches of Christ in a new way. If we...simply do something in a legal way to remove certain persons and replace them with others, this will make the church empty, and in this emptiness the church will suffer even more. Therefore, the leading ones need to pray, perhaps with fasting, that the church will receive something new in the experiences of Christ's gracious works. Then the church life will be renewed, replastered with new mortar, and all the members will be happy about the renewed church life.

　　"If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it has been replastered, then the priest shall come in and look; and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean. And he shall break down the house, its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city into an unclean place" (vv. 43-45). This signifies that after the dealing, if additional serious sins break out, the whole church should be torn down. This is most pitiful. If the situation of a church reaches the point where it cannot be cured, healed, then it will be necessary for that church to be terminated.

　　"But if...the priest comes in and looks, and if the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed" (v. 48). This signifies that if no sin is spreading after the renewing of the church with the new experiences of the Lord's gracious works, the church is clean and has no problem.

　　Leviticus 14:49-51 reveals the leprosy in a house is cleansed in the same way as the cleansing of leprosy in a man....[Verse 52] signifies that the whole church needs to be cleansed with the eternally efficacious blood of Christ and His eternal and living Spirit....The house being clean signifies that the church is fully clean to be the mutual dwelling of God and man. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 388-389, 391-393)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Leviticus, msg. 44