And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight
Another priest, as the Targum of Jonathan, Eleazar looking on, as
that expresses it; the Jews say F7, that when the priest came to
the mount of Olives, accompanied by the elders of Israel, before
he burnt the cow, he dipped himself in a dipping place there; and
the wood being laid there in order, wood of cedar, ash, fir, and
fig trees, made in the form of a tower, with holes opened in it
(to put in the fire, and that it might burn the quicker), and its
aspect being to the west, he bound the cow, and laid her upon the
pile, with her head to the south, and her face to the west; and
then having slain it, and sprinkled its blood, as before related,
he set fire to it by the help of some small wood: the burning of
it may signify the dolorous sufferings of Christ, when the wrath
of God was poured forth like fire upon him; the same was
signified by roasting the passover lamb:
her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung,
shall he burn;
which may denote the extent of Christ's sufferings, reaching to
all parts of his body, skin, flesh, and blood, and the shame and
reproach that attended them, signified by dung; as well as how
impure and accursed he was accounted when he was made sin for his
people, bore their sins and suffered for them, even not in body
only, but in his soul also; for his soul as well as his body were
made an offering for sin.