V. 28.— He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. The Apostle illustrates the subject by a reference to the law of Moses; he that despised Moses' law, such as Korah and his company, who despised what God had declared concerning the priesthood, which was limited to the family of Aaron, and determined to seize on it themselves, Numbers 16 :, or those who refused to go up against the Canaanites, and determined to make a captain and return to Egypt Numbers 14, and Numbers 15:30. Two witnesses were necessary to prove guilt. Hence our Lord says, It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. Doubtless it may be false, as in the case of those suborned against Naboth; but it was to be held true, and sentence passed accordingly.