* 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,
Joh 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.
7:26 Nu 25:4 Jos 7:12 2Sa 21:6 Ro 9:3 Ga 3:13 1Co 16:22
2Co 5:21
* thy land.
Le 18:25 Nu 35:33,34
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