Leviticus 25:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SPAKE. See note on Leviticus 5:14. MOUNT SINAI. See note in title "Leviticus"; not out of the tabernacle.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SPAKE. See note on Leviticus 5:14. MOUNT SINAI. See note in title "Leviticus"; not out of the tabernacle.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. WHEN, &C. See note on Leviticus 14:34. KEEP. SABBATH. Hebrew sabbath. sabbatizing. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. For emphasis. keep. sacred sabbath.... [ Continue Reading ]
SABBATH OF REST. See note on Exodus 16:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNDRESSED. unpruned.... [ Continue Reading ]
SABBATH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct), App-6, for the fruits of the seventh year.... [ Continue Reading ]
INCREASE. gain or profit. Hebrew. _tebu'ah._ So in verses: Leviticus 25:12; Leviticus 25:20. not in verses: Leviticus 25:16; Leviticus 25:36; Leviticus 25:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVEN SABBATHS OF YEARS.. _x_. = 49. See App-10.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUMPET. a curved horn of _jubilee,_ i.e. of loud or joyful sound. Hebrew. _yobel._ First jubilee; the last at the Nativity (the 29th). ATONEMENT. See note on Exodus 29:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
HALLOW-SET APART. Hebrew. _chadash._ See note on Exodus 3:5. PROCLAIM. cause public notice to be given.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Heb _'ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
OPPRESS. overreach.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING. in proportion. The estimation of value regulated by nearness of the jubilee. (So our estimation of value of earthly things governed by our sense of the nearness of Christ's coming.)... [ Continue Reading ]
SAFETY. confidence.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. (A lesson for us. God's "I will" the answer to our "What? "). BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVER. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, as we say "in perpetuity". absolutely or beyond recovery. THE LAND IS MINE. Compare Exodus 15:17; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 14:25; Jeremiah 2:7; Psalms 10:16; Psalms 78:54.... [ Continue Reading ]
GRANT. give. REDEMPTION. repurchase. Hebrew. _g'aal._ See note on Exodus 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "And if". WAXEN POOR. brought low. ANY OF HIS KIN. his _goel,_ or redeemer, next of kin. See note on Exodus 6:6. REDEEM. Hebrew. _g'aal,_ buy back. See note on Exodus 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
NONE TO REDEEM IT. no redeemer.... [ Continue Reading ]
RETURN. The twelve loaves of Leviticus 2. were. witness as to the People; the jubilee (Leviticus 25) as to the Land.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHIN. WHOLE YEAR. within days, "days" being put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for. whole year of days. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WALLED CITY. a city that hath walls.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES. Compare the forty-eight cities, Numbers 35:1; Joshua 21:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF. MAN PURCHASE OF THE LEVITES. Should be "if one of the Levites should not redeem".... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR. Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, have "your".... [ Continue Reading ]
FALLEN IN DECAY. "his hands have become shaky" or become feeble.... [ Continue Reading ]
USURY (Hebrew. _nashak),_ is. charge on _money._ INCREASE (Hebrew. _tarbith_ or _marbith)_ is. charge on _goods._ See notes on Leviticus 25:7 with Leviticus 26:4. These were the definitions of the authorities of the second temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO BE YOUR GOD. Jehovah became their God, by giving them Canaan. Compare Leviticus 26:45.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOLD, as in 2 Kings 4:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT FORTH. Note the four occurrences of this expression in these two Chapter s: Leviticus 26:13, brought out to be free men (in relation to the Egyptians); Leviticus 25:42 (in relation to fellow-Israelites); Leviticus 25:38, to be inheritors; and Leviticus 25:55, to be Jehovah _'_. servants. AS... [ Continue Reading ]
MAY REDEEM. Compare Nehemiah 5:8.... [ Continue Reading ]