Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 19:2

2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish ▪ and upon which never came yoke .

Or, The constitution of the Law, i. e. that which God hath ordained or established by Law.

At their common charge, because it was for the common good.

A fit colour to shadow forth both the bloody nature and complexion of sin, Isa. 1. 8. and the humane nature, and especially the Blood of Christ, from which this water and all other Rites had their purifying vertue.

A fit Type of Christ, who was such, Heb. 7. 26. 1 P[illegible: 1+ letters]t. 1. 19.

Whereby may be signified either that Christ in himself was free from all the yoke or obligation of Gods Command, till for our sakes he took up our yoke, and put himself under the Law; or that Christ was not drawn or forced to undertake our burden and cross, but that he did voluntarily chuse it. See Iohn 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 17, 18.