Numbers 35

When the iniquity of the Amorites was full, then God sent Israel to commence a war against them (Judges 11:21). Use 1. Lamentation, that this land is so defiled with blood (Numbers 35:33). How common is this sin in this hectoring age!

For it is a main and direct fence to the sixth commandment. Consider another reason: the whole land (says the Lord) shall be defiled with blood, till his blood be shed that kills a man (Numbers 35:33). Example 6. The adulterer and the adulteress shall both be put to death (Levit…

The latter clause which he quotes, he who kills shall be liable to the judgment, confirms what I said a little before, that Christ charges them with turning into a political scheme the law of God, which had been given for the government of the heart. 22. But I say to you His rep…

The word which we render (stain,) signifies properly to redeem a thing, either by price or by power, to redeem a thing by paying for it, or to redeem a thing by rescuing of it; hence among the Jews, he that was to redeem his deceased brother's land, and marry the widow, was call…

The guilt lay upon him, and the punishment due to it overtook him; although we do not read, that he was any otherwise guilty of it, than in not punishing those who had committed it. And those magistrates, who upon any respect whatever, suffer a murder to escape unpunished, are s…

A third way in which the death of Christ for sinners is expressed is satisfaction — that by his death he made satisfaction to the justice of God for the sins of those for whom he died, so that they might go free. It is true that the word 'satisfaction' does not appear in the Lat…