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Re: Lesson #13 - Cities of REFUGE
[Re: Mountain Man]
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12/21/09 04:28 PM
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Murderers could run to one of the cities of refuge and be protected by law from retribution. However, I don't understand how the guy desiring revenge is any less a sinner. It wasn't a case of desiring revenge. It was a duty which had to be performed. Núm 35:15 These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger, and for anyone who stays among them, so that everyone who kills any person through error may flee there. Núm 35:16 And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Núm 35:17 And if he strikes him by throwing a stone, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Núm 35:18 Or if he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Núm 35:19 The revenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him. Núm 35:20 And if he stabs him from hatred, or hurls at him by lying in wait, so that he dies, Núm 35:21 or in hatred strikes him with his hand so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The revenger of blood will kill the murderer when he meets him.
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Re: Lesson #13 - Cities of REFUGE
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12/24/09 11:50 AM
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If he intentionally murders someone, then, yes, the law requires the avenger, after due process, to execute him. But the part that sounds weird to me is the avenger can kill him without due process if he catches him before he makes it to a city of refuge or if he leaves the city of refuge before the high priest dies. Plus he is not to take satisfaction in it. Mike, It's not weird. It's actually quite sensible. It was this form of "justice" which enforced the jail sentence upon the murderer--for that is effectively what the cities of refuge were. They were a form of prison, in which their walls stood as the boundary, and in which the prisoner must abide until the end of his sentence (the death of the high priest). Once the high priest's death had occasioned the prisoners' release, the avengers of blood could no longer avenge the murder if the murderer came outside the walls of his incarceration. If it were not for the fear of their own lives, the murderers would have wandered free (i.e. "escaped") without having served their full sentence. Blessings, Green Cochoa.
We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self. We can discern the character of God, and accept Christ by faith, only as we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought to the obedience of Christ. And to all who do this, the Holy Spirit is given without measure. In Christ "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him." [Colossians 2:9, 10.] {GW 57.1} -- Ellen White.
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