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Ashes, Water, Christ, & Spirit
Commentators like Matthew Henry explain that the two elements required for cleansing are deeply symbolic for Christians. The ashes from the sin offering represent the finished, atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross. The 'running' or 'living' water signifies the power and grace of the Holy Spirit, who applies Christ's righteousness to us.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 19:11–22
18th Century
Theologian
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to ensure early burial, and to correct a pr…
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 19:17
19th Century
Bishop
of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin. —Better, of the ashes of the burnt sin-offering; literally,
Charles Spurgeon
On Numbers 19:17–22
19th Century
Preacher
This ordinance was partly sanitary. The Egyptians were accustomed to keep their dead in their houses, preserved as mummies. No Jew could do that, b…
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John Gill
On Numbers 19:17
17th Century
Pastor
And for an unclean person
Defiled by any of the above means:
they shall take of the ashes of the …
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 19:11–22
17th Century
Minister
Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered the world through sin, and reigns by its power. Th…