And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai._] Posthuman, returning from the eastern parts, is, by Sulpitius, _a_ brought in thus speaking: I saw the Red Sea, I went up Mount Sinai, the very top whereof, reaching up almost to heaven, c... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. Ver. 2. _Then shall the land keep a Sabbath._] By their weekly Sabbath they professed that themselves belonged to God, though Seneca jeers them for it... [ Continue Reading ]
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; Ver. 3. _Six years._] Beginning at September, according to the Jews' civil account.... [ Continue Reading ]
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. Ver. 4. _A Sabbath of rest unto the land._] This and the jubilee year shadowed our eternal rest. Col 2:16-17 Heb 4:9 (l.) Every seventh day they rested... [ Continue Reading ]
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land. Ver. 5. _Thou shalt not reap,_] _sc., _ All at once, as other years: but now some, and then some, for thy necessary food. _a_ a Maimon... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,_ Ver. 6. _Shall be meat for you._] Thus God taught and inured them to depend upon his providence, and to feed on faith, as... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Ver. 8. _Seven Sabbaths of years._] See on Leviticus 25:4 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Ver. 9. _In the day of atonement._] Here began the jubilee: this feast was founded in a fast. "They that sow in tears,... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. Ver. 10. _And proclaim liberty._] See this expound... [ Continue Reading ]
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed. Ver. 11. _A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be._] Or, That jubilee shall be unto you the year of fifty years. This first Mosaical j... [ Continue Reading ]
For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. Ver. 12. _Out of the field._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 25:6 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. Ver. 13. _Ye shall return every man unto his possession._] So shall all saints to the paradise of God, at the sound of the last trumpet.... [ Continue Reading ]
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: Ver. 14. _Ye shall not oppress._] But proceed by that golden rule, "Whatever ye would that men should do to you, even so do ye to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: Ver. 15. _Years of the fruits._] The land was not properly sold, but the fruits and revenues thereof.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 17. _But thou shalt fear thy God._] And so depart from this evil also. Gen 42:18 Joseph said to his brethren, who feared he would roll himself upon them, "This do and live, for I fear God," _... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. Ver. 18. _Ye shall do my statutes._] Ye shall do them, and do them: that is, ye shall do them diligently, _as _ Psa 119:4 and then ye shall dwell in the land in safety; yea, ye shall dwe... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Ver. 20. _And if ye shall say._] A clear answer to a carnal objection. Usually God conceals the objection in Scripture, and meets it with an answer, which is an act of grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. Ver. 21. _Command my blessing._] Now if God send his _mandamus,_ who shall gainstand it?... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store]. Ver. 22. _Ye shall eat of the old store._] Leave that care to me, who will cause you to have "all sufficiency in all things, that ye may abound to every goo... [ Continue Reading ]
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me. Ver. 23. _The land is mine._] See Leviticus 25:2 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. Ver. 24. _Ye shall grant a redemption,_] _i.e., _ Yield to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. Ver. 25. _And if any of his kin._] Christ is our near kinsman, and so by propinquity, as man, had the right of redemption. Ruth 2:20... [ Continue Reading ]
But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. Ver. 28. _And he shall return unto his possession._] So do all God's Israel... [ Continue Reading ]
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. Ver. 30. _And if it be not redeemed._] This would make the owners the better husb... [ Continue Reading ]
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. Ver. 31. _They may be redeemed._] Lands and homestall had need go together.... [ Continue Reading ]
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. Ver. 32. _May the Levites redeem at any time._] They were ever counted privileged persons: and it was but reason. See Leviticus 25:33,34 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year of] jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel. Ver. 33. See previous verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession. Ver. 34. _May not be sold._] This law lasted but during the paedagogy: for Joses, a Levite, sold his land, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet. Act 4:36-37... [ Continue Reading ]
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Ver. 35. _That he may live with thee,_] _i.e., _ Live in good fashion; for a necessitous life is a lifeless life. Thus shall ye s... [ Continue Reading ]
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Ver. 36. _Take thou no usury._] God dispenseth with no usury, but condemns both _Neshec_ the biting, and _Tarbith_ the toothless. In Rome at this day, all usurers are excommunicated monthly. The Jews inde... [ Continue Reading ]
I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God. Ver. 38. _I am the Lord your God._] Freely you have received, freely lend. You have had me your benefactor, you shall have me your debtor.... [ Continue Reading ]
And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: Ver. 39. _Thou shalt not compel him._] To serve for ever, nor use him basely and hardly meanwhiles.... [ Continue Reading ]
And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. Ver. 41. _And then shall he depart from thee._] Yea, and though he had been bored through the ear, in token of perpetual servitude... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. Ver. 43. _Rule over him with rigour._] As the Egyptians did over the Israelites. Exo 1:13 Thy servant is made of the same earth with thee, and hath right to the same heaven with thee. See Galatians 3:28. The servant paid the half she... [ Continue Reading ]
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Ver. 44. _Both thy bondmen._] Reprobates might be hereby figured.... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. Ver. 46. _But over your brethren the children of Israel._] Ta... [ Continue Reading ]