8患麻风者要得洁净，第一就是“带他去见祭司”（2）。祭司乃是预表主耶稣。“祭司要出到营外察看”（3），因为患麻风者不能进到营内，必须被赶出营外。这是说，我们有罪的人，不能进到神的子民中间，不能进到神显现赐恩的范围里去，但主耶稣却出来察看我们。我们若实在从心里悔改了，这在神看，就是麻风发白痊愈了。……麻风的污秽，在神面前是得罪神的，所以需要洒血的洗净。这并不在于洗净污秽的本身，而是在于消除在神面前的罪案。洒血的手续，是预备两只鸟。一只要宰杀，血流在瓦器的活水里；一只要活着，用以蘸血来洒患麻风的人。一只鸟宰杀了，预表主耶稣流血受死；一只鸟活着，预表主耶稣从死复活。活水预表主永远的生命，所以这是指主耶稣，在祂永远的生命里，为我们流血受死；而这受死所流的血，和祂永远的生命，又是借着祂的复活，带到我们身上来，并发生功效的。洒血要洒七次，乃是预表主血的洁净是完全的，能够除去我们在神面前一切的罪案，使我们得蒙神的悦纳。活鸟蘸血洒过以后，就放到田野里，是表明人一接受主的替死，主的血一在他身上发生功效，主复活的能力，立刻就显在他身上，而释放了他（李常受文集一九五三年第三册，四九五至四九七页）。
8The first requirement for the cleansing of a leper was to bring him to the priest. The priest typifies the Lord Jesus. “The priest shall go forth outside the camp” (v. 3) to examine the leper, because the leper could not enter into the camp but had to remain outside. This tells us that we sinners cannot come into the midst of God’s people, where God manifests His grace; but the Lord Jesus has come out to examine us. If we have really repented from our heart, then the plague of leprosy is healed in the sight of God…The filthiness of the leper is a sin before God; therefore, it requires the cleansing of the sprinkling of the blood. This is not for the cleansing of the sinful nature but for the abolishing of all record of sin before God. The procedure in the sprinkling of the blood is to prepare two birds: one to be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over running water, and the other, which is living, to be dipped in the blood, and the blood to then be sprinkled over the leper. The bird that is slaughtered typifies the Lord Jesus shedding His blood and suffering death, the living bird typifies the Lord Jesus resurrected from death, and the running water typifies the eternal life of our Lord. Therefore, this indicates that the Lord Jesus shed His blood and suffered death in His eternal life. Furthermore, the blood, shed by His death, and His eternal life are brought to us and become effective in us through His resurrection. The sprinkling of the blood seven times indicates the completeness of the cleansing of the Lord’s blood; it can abolish all our sinful record before God and make us acceptable to God. After the living bird was dipped in the blood, it was set loose into the open field. This means that after a person receives the death of the Lord Jesus in his stead, the blood of the Lord becomes effective upon him, and the power of the resurrection of the Lord is manifested in him and sets him free. (CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” pp. 362-363)