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A Picture of Christ's Sacrifice
Commentators overwhelmingly see this ritual as a powerful foreshadowing of Jesus's sacrifice. Just as the heifer was taken 'outside the camp' to be slain, Jesus was crucified outside the gates of Jerusalem. As the heifer symbolically bore the people's impurity, Christ bore our sins, becoming a curse for us to bring us purification, a connection the book of Hebrews makes explicit (Hebrews 13:11–13).
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 19:3
18th Century
Theologian
The work would necessarily require a priest; yet, as it made him unclean for the day (Numbers 19:22), the high priest was relieved from…
Charles Spurgeon
On Numbers 19:2–3
19th Century
Preacher
This was not a usual sacrifice, for the beasts offered were as a rule males; but this was to be a special sacrifice. It was not to be killed by the…
John Calvin
On Numbers 19:3
16th Century
Theologian
And you shall give her to Eleazar. A clear distinction is made here between two offerings; for the people are not permitted to kill the he…
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John Gill
On Numbers 19:3
17th Century
Pastor
And you shall give her unto Eleazar the priest
The son of Aaron; the Sagan of the priests, as the Targum of Jonathan…
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 19:1–10
17th Century
Minister
The heifer was to be entirely burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire to…