Holy Scripture
Deuteronomy 21:23
A church father on this verse
“If any of our own people also inquire, not from love of debate but from love of learning, why he suffered death in no other way except on the cross, let him also be told that no other way than this was good for us and that it was well that the Lord suffered this for our sakes. For if he himself came to bear the curse…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for everyone that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.
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In context
21And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and thou shalt remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.
22And if there be sin in anyone, and the judgment of death be upon him, and he be put to death, and ye hang him on a tree:
— Deuteronomy 21:23 —