3<\/strong>. and it shall be<\/em>, etc.] Lit. and it shall be<\/em> as regards the city which that the elders of that city shall take<\/em>, etc. Similar construction in Deu 12:11<\/span>, Deu 18:19<\/span>.<\/p>\n an heifer of the herd<\/em> ] 1Sa 16:2<\/span>, Gen 15:9<\/span> ( a three year old<\/em>) for sacrifice.<\/p>\n which hath not been wrought with<\/em> ] Heifers were used for work, Jdg 14:18<\/span>, Hos 10:11<\/span>, Jer 50:11<\/span>, but this one, destined for a sacred use, must not have been so profaned: cp. Deu 15:19<\/span>, of firstlings, Num 19:2<\/span>, of the red heifer.<\/p>\n The requirements as regards place and victim are symbolic. The heifer represented the murderer, so far at least as to die in his stead, since he himself could not be found. As hearing his guilt the heifer must therefore be one which was of full growth and strength, and had not yet been ceremonially profaned by human use. The Christian commentators find here a type of Christ and of His sacrifice for man: but the heifer was not strictly a sacrifice or sin-offering. The transaction was rather figurative, and was so ordered as to impress the lesson of Gen 9:5<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n A fit vicegerent and representative of the murderer, in whose stead it was killed, who by this act hath shown himself to be a son of Belial, who would not bear the yoke of Gods law. A type also of Christ, who was obliged to no work, and under no yoke, but what he had voluntarily taken upon himself. <\/P> <\/p>\n And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man<\/strong>,…. And so suspected, as the Targum of Jonathan, of the murder; or the murderer is in it, or however belonged to it:<\/p>\n even the elders of the city shall take an heifer<\/strong>; of a year old, as the same Targum, and so Jarchi; and in this the Jewish writers agree, that it must be a year old, but not two; though heifers of three years old were sometimes used in sacrifice, Ge 15:9<\/span> a type of Christ, in his strength, laboriousness, and patience; see Nu 19:2<\/span><\/p>\n which hath not been wrought with<\/strong>; in ploughing land, or treading out corn:<\/p>\n and which hath not drawn in the yoke<\/strong>, which never had any yoke put upon it; or however, if attempted to be put upon it, it would not come under it, and draw with it: no mention is made, as usual, that it should be without blemish: because though in some sense expiatory, yet was not properly a sacrifice, it not being slain and offered where sacrifices were; hence it is said in the Misnah q, that a blemish in it did not make it rejected, or unlawful for use: nevertheless, this heifer may be a type of Christ, whose sufferings, bloodshed, and death, atone for secret and unknown sins, as well as for open and manifest ones, even for all sin; and its being free from labour, and without a yoke, may signify the freedom of Christ from the yoke of sin, and the service of it, and from human traditions; that he was not obliged to any toil and labour he had been concerned in, or to bear the yoke of the law, had he not voluntarily undertaken it of himself; and that he expiated the sins of such who were sons of Belial, children without a yoke; and for the same reason, this heifer not being required to be without blemish, might be because Christ, though he had no sin of his own, was made sin for his people, and reckoned as if he had been a sinner; though indeed, had this been the design of the type, all the sacrifices which typified Christ would not have required such a qualification, to be without blemish, as they did.<\/p>\n q Ut supra, (Sotah, c. 9.) sect. 5.<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. <\/strong> The city which is next unto the slain man <\/strong> The nearest city was to expiate the bloodguiltiness. <\/p>\n A heifer, which hath not been wrought with <\/strong> The victim that was to be immolated must be one that had never been applied to common use. Comp. Exo 20:25<\/span>; Num 19:2<\/span>. Among the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans such a victim was deemed more suitable for sacrifice.<\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>3. <\/strong>Shall take an heifer<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> If two cities happened to be equidistant from the dead body, then they joined together to provide this heifer, which might be of three years old. <\/p>\n Deu 21:3 And it shall be, [that] the city [which is] next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, [and] which hath not drawn in the yoke;<\/p>\n Ver. 3. Shall take a heifer.<\/strong> ] Signifying Christ, who is the propitiation for his people’s sins, 1Jn 2:2 <\/p>\n man. Hebrew. ‘ish. See App-14. <\/p>\n an: Num 19:2, Jer 31:18, Mat 11:28-30, Phi 2:8 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Lev 4:15 – the elders<\/p>\n And it shall be, [that] the city [which is] next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, [and] which hath not drawn in the yoke; 3. and it shall be, etc.] Lit. and it shall be as regards the city which that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 21:3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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