Joshua 7:15

15. He… shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath As the anathema was to be executed by fire, and as the guilty man has made himself and all his possessions anathema, he is to be destroyed with fire. See note on Joshua 7:24. The body, rendered lifeless by stoning, (Joshua 7:25,) and not the living man, was to be burned. Burning alive is not found in the Mosaic law.

Wrought folly in Israel Folly is a very appropriate name for sin, since every sin proceeds from real intellectual stupidity, short-sightedness, and fatuity, which the Greeks expressed by a word signifying missing the mark. In the eye of true reason the devil himself is a simpleton, and all his followers doltishly reject divine instruction, and stupidly go down to hell, imagining that God does not see their sins, and will not punish the guilty.