Deut 21:23

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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.

Deut 7:26; Num 25:4; Josh 7:12; 2Sam 21:6; Rom 9:3; Gal 3:13; 1Cor 16:22

2Co 5:21

thy land.

Lev 18:25; Num 35:33; Num 35:34