So a compromise was made that for all lepers in the twenty-one parishes who could not give what the rules required, a sum of twenty livres from the parish authorities would be accepted as an equivalent.
He gloried in tending the sick lepers and in all the hardships of poverty.
The spiritual is even greater than the temporal utility; for there the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the dead are raised, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
In earlier times, and all through the middle ages, the disease was regarded as contagious; and lepers were accordingly segregated, as far as practicable, from the people.
For still he, no less really than they, was a leper; and, until made whole, into the fellowship of lepers he must go and abide.
The truth is, that the Mosaic law concerning the treatment of the leper, when compared with regulations touching lepers which have prevailed among other nations, stands contrasted with them by its comparative leniency.
Besides the lepers and those who had an issue, every one who was unclean by reason of touching a dead body was to be excluded from the camp.
Denied access to God in festival and sacrifice, the lepers appealed to the humane feelings of the people.
The lepers banished outside the camp remind us of those who have for no wrong-doing of their own to endure social reproach.
The rigidness of the law which excludedlepers from the camp and afterwards from the cities had its necessity in the presumed nature of their disease.
There may have been other lepers in the outlying tents; but her sin has been of such a kind that the public conscience is especially directed to it.
In their poor dwellings beyond camp and city wall the lepers lay under a double reproach.
The law in regard to lepers was particularly severe, for they were denied the right of staying within the camp, whereas the unclean were prohibited merely from staying near the sanctuary.
The lepers were the very ones who had worshipped the Golden Calf, and had as a consequence been smitten with this disease, and it was for this reason that God separated them from the community.
Wouldst thou have wished thy sons, to whom the innermost places had been assigned, to sit as lepers outside the encampment as a penalty for having entered the Holy of Holies?
White women have been buried down there--live corpses; and have come forth bleachedlepers to the light.
Kings Chapter 7 Eliseus prophesieth a great plenty, which presently ensueth upon the sudden flight of the Syrians; of which four lepers bring the news to the city.
The government was vested in the Master or Warden and other officers, together with a certain number of sound brethren and sisters--and in certain cases lepers themselves--who formed a chapter.
Whether the number of lepers was reduced when the hospital possessions were curtailed we are not told.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.
The Padrona, who kept this tavern upon such custom as the peasants who brought food to sell to the lepers brought her, also fled.
It was a miserable place, and nearly empty, the lepers having carried off most of their possessions with them.
When I had brought him here, and the plague manifestly appeared upon him, all the lepers fled, and forsook the place.
The Japanese was named Lazaro; he was one of the lepers who had been formerly exiled from Japan for the faith, and came with the Dominicans as a guide.
He was serving in a hut of lepers when he was betrayed to the judge.
So strange was she, so in daze and amaze and far-seeing were her eyes, that I was reminded of the lepers I had seen healed in Samaria.
Such was her certitude that I accepted it fully, as I had accepted the amazement of the lepers of Samaria staring at their smooth flesh; and I was bitter that so great a woman should be so easily wit-addled by a vagrant wonder-worker.
And thereat I told of the healing of the ten lepers I had witnessed in Samaria on my way through Jericho.
I was enabled to remember once again, and to remember, among other things, the time when I sat astride a horse and beheld the lepers healed.
The ten lepers Christ healed before he passed through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem," the missionary explained to my parents.
The blind receive their 23 And blessed is he, sight, and the lame walk, the whosoever shall not be lepers are cleansed, and the offended in me.
Moreover, in some of these the literal reason was that men should not be kept away from worshipping God through fear of coming in contact with lepers and others similarly afflicted with loathsome and contagious diseases.
It is significant that the greater number of lepers are found where governments are unstable and administration uncertain.
In Chili and Argentina, where government is something more than a symbol, lepers are relatively few, and are practically disappearing.
She says she will see him if he will come the next Sunday morning before breakfast, dressed in poor clothes, and in company with a squad of lepers who have a camp near her castle.
The community quarantined the lepers in waste places by stoning them when they crossed bounds.
The monk who passed thee but now goes every year to the Place of Lepers with the caravan, for a brother of this order stays yonder with the afflicted, seeing no more the faces of this world which he has left behind.
There is in the far desert a place wherelepers live.
The Place of the Lepers is sacred even from thee, Effendina," answered David gravely.
When at last she reached the King's Garden she slackened her gait; for then the grim city of the lepers was in view, extending far round the pitted south hill of Hinnom.
There was no need of any one to tell the lepers that this was he--the wonderful Nazarene!
So poor Amrah, aloof and hiding her face, knew the transformation the lepers were undergoing without a word spoken to her--knew it, and shared all their feeling to the full.
When at length the foremost of them were in sight, the gaze of the lepersfixed upon a man riding in the midst of what seemed a chosen company which sang and danced about him in extravagance of joy.
He was travelling with him, and heard the lepers call, and saw them go away well.
There was first in the hearts of the lepers a freshening of the blood; then it flowed faster and stronger, thrilling their wasted bodies with an infinitely sweet sense of painless healing.
There was diligent scouring of the dread city on the hill by lepers to whom the rewards offered were mighty incentives, for they were only dead in law.
Amidst the din, the cries of the poor lepers were not more than the twittering of dazed sparrows.
Immediately both the hosts, that from the city and that from Bethphage, closed around him with their joyous demonstrations, with hosannas and waving of palms, and so he passed from the lepers forever.
But if ten lepers Were healed, and but one returned to give thanks, I desire to be as that one, and to be thankful for myself.
I have made up my mind to go to the lepers with the others, Mother, if you will give me your permission.
She has asked permission to join the other Sisters of the order who are going out to Rangoon to nurse the lepers there.
And not even to save life, forlepers cannot be cured, you know.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
