No one was to be exposed to his sickening form nor to the stench of his breath. He was cut off from the land of the living though still clinging to life. Finally the leper was to remove himself outside the camp. He was rejected and ejected from his family, friends, and the temple, where God was worshipped. The horror of leprosy to the eyes is but a semblance of the condition of the human heart.
Sin is repulsive and horribly ugly.
And as leprosy was incurable by men, sin too is an incurable condition. Sin is impervious to any human remedy. Only the miracle-working power of the LORD God can effectively eradicate sin in the heart of man. In spite of all that was known to this poor leper in the demands of the regulations and restrictions concerning those like him, he made his way through the crowd to come to the feet of Jesus. We might imagine how the throng of people when seeing this leper in their midst clamored over each other trying to avoid him as he stumbled along trying to reach the Great Physician.