Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give [also] unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. Ver. 2. _Suburbs._] These were for pasture, pleasure, and other country commodities, not for... [ Continue Reading ]
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites [there shall be] six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities. Ver. 6. _That he may flee thither._] All sins then are not equal, as the Stoics held;... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 35:7 [So] all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them [shall ye give] with their suburbs. Ver. 7. _Shall be forty and eight cities._] Thus the Levites were dispersed throughout the land for instruction of the people; so ought ministers of the go... [ Continue Reading ]
And the cities which ye shall give [shall be] of the possession of the children of Israel: from [them that have] many ye shall give many; but from [them that have] few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth. Ver. 8. _F... [ Continue Reading ]
These six cities shall be a refuge, [both] for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. Ver. 15. _Shall be a refuge._] Christ is our asylum, to whom running for refuge, when pursued by the guilt... [ Continue Reading ]
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Ver. 16. _So that he die._] Though he had no intent to kill, yet because he should have looked better to it, he is a murderer; he smote him purposely and presumptuously, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Or [if] he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Ver. 18. _The murderer shall surely be put to death._] This is _ius gentium._ The Turks' justice in this case will rather cut off two innocent men, than... [ Continue Reading ]
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him. Ver. 21. _He shall surely be put to death._] And yet the Papists allow wilful murderers also to take san... [ Continue Reading ]
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm: Ver. 23. _Or with any stone._] As at the funeral solemnities of Queen Anne, a scholar was slain by the fall of a letter of stone, thrust down from the... [ Continue Reading ]
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. Ver. 25. _Unto the death o... [ Continue Reading ]