At the end of seven years As weshould say of six(so LXX) years. In Hebrew counting of this kind both the first and the last items were reckoned in. So the jubilee was in strictness the forty-ninth (the seventh Sabbatical) not the fiftieth year. Compare the rite of circumcision administered on the eighth (seventh) day after birth, and our Lord's Resurrection on "the third (second) day." The words are quoted somewhat freely from Deuteronomy 15:12, rather than from the parallel passage Exodus 21:2 ("The Book of the Covenant").

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