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One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
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A Picture of Total Suffering
Commentators agree that the complete burning of the heifer—skin, flesh, blood, and dung—vividly typifies the totality of Christ's suffering. This wasn't a partial sacrifice; it points to Jesus suffering in his entire being, body and soul, and even bearing the full shame and reproach of our sin, which some scholars see symbolized by the dung.
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19th Century
Baptist
All was to be burnt, and then the ashes, the essence and product of it, were to be preserved to make the water of purification needed to remove tho…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight Another priest, as the Targum of Jonathan, Eleazar looking on, as that …
Presbyterian
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…
