SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:22
Cuando en alguno hubiere pecado de sentencia de muerte, por el que haya de morir, y le habrás colgado de un madero,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death , etc.] This before mentioned, or any other that deserves death, any kind of death, as strangling, killing with the sword, burning and stoning, to which the Jews restrain it here: and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him, on a tree ; is condemned to stoning, and after that they hang him, as the Targum of Jonathan; and according to the Jewish Rabbins, as Jarchi observes, all that were stoned were to be hanged, and only men, not women f303 ; for it is remarked that it is said “him” and not “her” f304 : about this there is a dispute in the Misnah f305 ; “all that are stoned are hanged, they are the words of R. Eliezer; but the wise men say none are to be hanged but the blasphemer and idolater; a man is to be hanged with his face to the people, a woman with her face to the tree, they are the words of R. Eliezer; but the wise men say, a man is to be hanged, but no woman, to whom R. Eliezer replied, did not Simeon Ben Shetach hang women in Ashkelon? they answered him, he hung eighty women (at once), but they do not judge or condemn two in one day;” so that this was a particular case at a particular time, and not be drawn into an example: in the same place it is asked, ``how they hang one? they fix a beam in the earth, and a piece of wood goes out of it (near the top of it, as one of the commentator remarks), and join his two hands together and hang him;” that is, by his hand, not by his neck, as with us, but rather in the crucifixion; only in that the hands are spread, and one hand is fastened to one part of the cross beam, and the other to the other end.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22, 23 - By the law of Moses, the touch of a dead body was defiling, therefor dead bodies must not be left hanging, as that would defile the land There is one reason here which has reference to Christ; "He that is hanged is accursed of God;" that is, it is the highest degree of disgrace and reproach. Those who see a man thus hanging between heave and earth, will conclude him abandoned of both, and unworthy of either Moses, by the Spirit, uses this phrase of being accursed of God, when he means no more than being treated most disgracefully, that it migh afterward be applied to the death of Christ, and might show that in i he underwent the curse of the law for us; which proves his love, an encourages to faith in him __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וכי 3588 יהיה 1961 באישׁ 376 חטא 2399 משׁפט 4941 מות 4194 והומת 4191 ותלית 8518 אתו 853 על 5921 עץ׃ 6086
