Numbers 19 - Introduction
* The ashes of a heifer. (1-10) Used to purify the unclean. (11-22)... [ Continue Reading ]
* The ashes of a heifer. (1-10) Used to purify the unclean. (11-22)... [ Continue Reading ]
1-10 The heifer was to be wholly burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire, to satisfy God's justice for man's sin. These ashes are said to be laid up as a purification for sin, because, though they were only to purify from cer... [ Continue Reading ]
11-22 Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered into the world by it, and reigns by the power of it. The law could not conquer death, nor abolish it, as the gospel does, by bringing life and immortality to light, and so introducing a better hop... [ Continue Reading ]