the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
This is the law concerning the leprosy in a house. Now that they were in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, and had no houses, and therefore the law is made only an appendix to the former laws concerning the leprosy, because it related, not to their present state, but to their future settlement.
Commenting on Leviticus 14:33-53
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it,.... That is, on the seventh day of the second week of its being shut up: and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; See Gill on Lev 14:42, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; fit to be inhabited, and so no more to be shut...
Lev 14:43-45 If the mole broke out again after this had taken place, it was a malicious leprosy, and the house was to be pulled down as unclean, whilst the stones, the wood, and the mortar were to be taken to an unclean place outside the town.
Commenting on Leviticus 14:43-45