This might be boring for some
but it shouldn't be. I am doing a paper over what leprous people had to do as "punishment" or "treatment" in Israel and I found a book by this man named Andrew Bonar. I have to share this quote with you. (headnote: leprous people had to go outside the city walls, tear their clothes, cover their face, not comb their hair, and call out Unclean, unclean)“O leprous soul! A High Priest passes through thy country now, who could deliver thee from thy diseases! Come, come, though thou has sat alone under thy juniper-tree, apart from men, these many, many days! Come, though in vain thou hast hitherto looked for any abatement of thy disease! Perhaps no man ever cared for thy soul? Perhaps thou hast looked on the right hand, and there was no man that would know thee. Perhaps it is long since refuge failed thee. But a High Priest is in the land, who can deliver thee. He takes thee as thou art; He pronounces thee as thou really art, “Unclean, unclean;” and then He stoops down, and says, “Look unto me, and be saved!” He passes by; He walks on the outside of the city, where the lepers are sitting, wistfully looking in through its gates, yet not daring to enter; He will soon enter in, and shut its everlasting gates! Invite Him near; nay, He is near. “He it is that talketh with thee!” He has blood that cleanses from all sin. His touch is healing; His look is life!”
I was once leprous, and this High Priest found me and told me that I could be clean. Has he found you?
posted by corbs @ 2:47 PM
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