To be sold] The Mosaic Law allowed the sale of a debtor with his wife and children, these being regarded as his property (Leviticus 25:39; 2 Kings 4:1), but the rabbis disapproved this severity, except in the case of a thief. The reference is to Gentile customs, probably to the Roman law. Spiritually the selling is 'the expression of God's right and power altogether to alienate from Himself, reject, and deliver into bondage all those who have come short of His glory.'

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