_A Sabbath of rest unto the land._ THE SABBATIC YEAR AND JUBILEE 1. I do not suppose that these sabbatic regulations referred severally to separate and distinct things. The seventh day, the seventh month, the seventh year, and the year of jubilee, as I take them, all express the same great thought,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And if thy brother be waxen poor._ JEWISH BENEVOLENCE Mr. William Gilbert, describing in _Good Words _the cases of mendicancy which he saw appear before the Jewish Board of Guardians, tells of a Prussian Jew, quite blind, who was led into the room by a child of one of the lodgers of the house he... [ Continue Reading ]
_If thy brother. .. be sold unto thee._ SLAVERY I. Texts relating to slaves. 1. Called bondmen (Genesis 43:18; Genesis 44:9). 2. By birth (Genesis 14:14; Psalms 116:16; Jeremiah 2:14). 3. By purchase (Genesis 17:27; Genesis 37:36). 4. Sometimes captives taken in war ... [ Continue Reading ]