Emphasis Preaching Journal

In Bergman's film, The Seventh Seal, one character is shown playing chess with the figure of Death. It is a chilling scene from a movie about the plague in medieval Europe. The characters succumb to illness, hysteria, isolation and eventually to Death himself. Descriptions of ancient Hebraic health laws, in this case the isolation of the leperous, remind us of the pain and loneliness which the afflicted share.