For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, since all laws regarding the return of property would be annulled by Israel's removal from the land, although they were yet alive, literally, "even were their life still among the living," at the time when, according to ancient regulations, the seller might regain possession of his property; for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return, that is, the vision vouchsafed by the Lord to his prophet is against the entire mass of the people and will not be changed, neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life, that is, possession should be withdrawn from the whole nation, because no evil person should, by committing wickedness, be strengthened in his life and thus he enabled to withstand the enemy.

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