John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 15:31

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, etc.] That is, has broken it through contempt of it, despising it as a command of God, paying no regard to it as a law of his; otherwise such who sin ignorantly break the commandment of God: that soul shall be utterly cut off; or “in cutting off shall be cut off” f207; most certainly cut off and entirely ruined and destroyed in this world and in that to come, as the Targum of Jonathan; and Maimonides f208 understands it of such a cutting off, that the soul itself perishes and is no more; but such annihilation the Scripture nowhere gives us any reason to believe: his iniquity [shall be] upon him; the punishment of it, no atonement being made for it by sacrifice; it shall be upon him and him only, or be “in him” f209 , not repented of and not forgiven.

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