Deu 21:23, Psa 22:16, Zec 12:10, Mat 20:19, 26:2, Mar 10:33-34, Luk 24:7 | TSK | STEP | 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. thy land.

Deuteronomy 21:23

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, 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

Psalms 22:16

dogs.

22:1; *title

20; 59:6,14; Mt 7:6; Php 3:2; Re 22:15

compassed.

Lu 11:53,54

assembly.

86:14; Jer 12:6; Mt 26:57; Mr 15:16-20; Lu 22:63-71; 23:4,5,10,11

Lu 23:23

they pierced.The textual reading is {kaäri,} "as a lion my hands and feet;" but several MSS., read {kâroo,} and others {karoo} in the margin, which affords the reading adopted by our translators. So the LXX. [oryxan cheiras mou kai podas,] so also the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic; and as all the Evangelists so quote the passage, and apply it to the crucifixion of Christ, there seems scarcely the shadow of a doubt that this is the genuine reading; especially when it is considered, that the other contains no sense at all. The whole difference lies between [vâv] {wav} and [yôwd,] {yood,} which might easily be mistaken for each other.

Zec 12:10; Mt 27:35; Mr 15:24; Lu 23:33; Joh 19:23,37; 20:25,27

Zechariah 12:10

I will pour.

Pr 1:23; Isa 32:15; 44:3,4; 59:19-21; Eze 39:29; Joe 2:28,29

Ac 2:17,33; 10:45; 11:15; Tit 3:5,6

the house.

the spirit.

Ps 51:12

of supplications.

Jer 31:9; 50:4; Ro 8:15,26; Eph 6:18; Jude 1:20

they shall look.That this relates to the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, and to his being pierced by the soldier's spear, we have the authority of the inspired apostle John for affirming; and this application agrees with the opinion of some of the ancient Jews, who interpret it of Messiah the son of David, as Moses Hadarson, on Ge ch. 28, though Jarchi and Abarbanel refer it to the death of Messiah the son of Joseph, whom they say was to be the suffering Messiah, while the former is to be the triumphant Messiah.

Ps 22:16,17; Joh 1:29; 19:34-37; Heb 12:2; Re 1:7

they shall mourn.

Jer 6:26; Am 8:10; Mt 24:30; 26:75; Ac 2:37; 2Co 7:9-11