1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Numbers 25:4 | Said to Moses: *Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel. Deuteronomy 4:3. | People. Assemble the judges, and by their sentence, hang them who have been most guilty. (Onkelos) --- If any of the judges, or princes themselves, have gone astray, let them not be spared. (Haydock) --- The Jews assert, that the malefactor was always killed before his body was hung on a gibbet; and that crucifixion was not known among them. But the contrary is asserted by many. It is not clear whether these criminals were hung by the neck, or crucified, after they had been first stoned, as guilty of idolatry, or whether they were fastened to the gibbet alive, for greater torment and disgrace. (Calmet) --- Sun; publicly. See 2 Kings 12:11. (Menochius) |