Hebrews 10:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The punishment threatened on such sinners is illustrated by an instance proper to the Hebrews; For if the lesser sin against Moses's law was punished by death, the greater sin against the gospel of Christ shall be more punished. He that despised Moses's law; any person, whoever he were, none excepted, cantemning, rejecting, nullifying, or making to have noplace or force, (suitable to forsaking, before prohibited), the law of God, given by the mediation of Moses, so as to have no power on the conscience by apostacy from it, and to do it openly, proudly, and presumptuously, in the face of the church, Numbers 15:30,31. Died without mercy under two or three witnesses; was to be sentenced to death without any compassion or mercy, and indispensably executed without any pity, by stoning of the offender by two or three witnessess, which did evidence the fact, and convict him of it, according to the law, as Deuteronomy 13:6-11 17:2-7.