Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 35:32
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Verse 32. Until the death of the priest.] Probably intended to typify, that no sinner can be delivered from his banishment from God, or recover his forfeited inheritance, till Jesus Christ, the great high priest, had died for his offences, and risen again for his justification.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Whereby God would signify the absolute and indispensable necessity of Christs death to expiate sin, and to redeem the sinner.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge,…. Though for killing a man unawares:
that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest; the high priest; such a man’s liberty was not to be purchased with money, nor even his life to be bought off, should he be taken without his city; a great ransom could not deliver him from the avenger, because he was guilty of this law, which so wisely and mercifully provided for him; and consequently guilty also of great ingratitude to God, as well as of a breach of his law, and of disrespect to his high priest, under whom he was protected.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
priest: i.e. the high priest. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read it so, as in Num 35:28.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Act 4:12, Gal 2:21, Gal 3:10-13, Gal 3:22, Rev 5:9, The region east of Jordan was nearly as long as that on the west, and therefore three cities were appointed in each division. One or other of these cities would be within half a day’s journey of every part of the land; and as it would rarely happen that the avenger of blood would be on the spot, and none had a right to assault or detain the manslayer, at least if no malicious intention was manifest, the unhappy men would, therefore, get the start of their adversaries, and very few of them be overtaken before they gained the place of refuge. But then they must forsake their families, employments, most important interests, and dearest comforts; and they must neither loiter nor yield to weariness, nor regard difficulties, nor slacken their pace, till they had got safe within the walls of the city. The Jewish writers inform us, that to afford every facility to those who thus fled for their life, the road to these cities was always preserved in good repair; and way-posts, upon which was inscribed REFUGE were placed wherever needful, that they might not so much as hesitate for a moment.
Reciprocal: Isa 26:21 – also