Verse 23
he that is hanged is accursed of God: Heb. the curse of God, That is, it is the highest degree of reproach that can attach to a man, and proclaims him under the curse of God as much as any external punishment can. They that see him thus hanging between heaven and earth, will conclude him abandoned of both, and unworthy of either. Bp. Patrick observes, that this passage is applied to the death of Christ; not only because he bare our sins and was exposed to shame, as these malefactors were that were accursed of God, but because he was in the evening taken down from the cursed tree and buried - and that by the particular care of the Jews, with an eye to this law, John 19:31, in token, that now the guilt being removed, the law was satisfied, as it was when the malefactors had hanged till sun-set: it demanded no more. Then he, and those that are his, ceased to be a curse. And as the land of Israel was pure and clean when the body was buried, so the church is washed and cleansed by the complete satisfaction which Christ thus made. Deuteronomy 7:26, Numbers 25:4, Joshua 7:12, 2 Samuel 21:6, Romans 9:3, Galatians 3:13, 1 Corinthians 16:22, 2 Corinthians 5:21
thy land: Leviticus 18:25, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34
Reciprocal: Genesis 40:19 - hang thee Joshua 8:29 - the king Joshua 10:26 - hanged Joshua 10:27 - they took Judges 19:29 - with her bones 2 Samuel 4:12 - hanged 2 Samuel 18:9 - taken up 2 Kings 10:8 - until the morning Esther 2:23 - hanged Esther 9:13 - let Haman's ten sons be hanged Jeremiah 2:7 - ye defiled Ezekiel 39:12 - cleanse Mark 15:24 - crucified Luke 23:33 - they crucified John 12:32 - if John 18:32 - what Acts 5:6 - General 1 Corinthians 12:3 - accursed Philippians 2:8 - the death 1 Peter 2:24 - the tree
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