Bible Commentaries

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.

children. Hebrew sons.

When, &c. See note on Leviticus 14:34.

keep a sabbath. Hebrew sabbath a sabbatizing. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6. For emphasis = keep a sacred sabbath.

sabbath of rest. See note on Exodus 16:23.

undressed = unpruned.

sabbath. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Adjunct), App-6, for the fruits of the seventh year.

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.

seven sabbaths of years. 7 x 7 = 49. See App-10.

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.

hallow-set apart. Hebrew. chadash. See note on Exodus 3:5.

proclaim = cause public notice to be given.

holy. See note on Exodus 3:5.

man. Heb "ish. App-14.

oppress = overreach.

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.)

safety = confidence.

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.

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.

grant = give.

redemption = repurchase. Hebrew. g"aal. See note on Exodus 6:6.

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.

none to redeem it = no redeemer.

return. The twelve loaves of Lev 24were a witness as to the People; the jubilee (Lev 25) as to the Land.

within a whole year = within days, "days" being put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), for a whole year of days. App-6.

the walled city = a city that hath walls.

the cities of the Levites. Compare the forty-eight cities, Numbers 35:1-8. Joshua 21:1-8.

if a man purchase of the Levites. Should be "if one of the Levites should not redeem".

their. Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, have "your".

fallen in decay = "his hands have become shaky" or become feeble.

usury (Hebrew. nashak), is a charge on money.

increase (Hebrew. tarbith or marbith) is a charge on goods. See notes on Leviticus 25:7 with Leviticus 26:4. These were the definitions of the authorities of the second temple.

and to be your God. Jehovah became their God, by giving them Canaan. Compare Leviticus 26:45.

sold, as in 2 Kings 4:1.

brought forth. Note the four occurrences of this expression in these two chapters: 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"s servants.

as bondmen. Hebrew "with the sale of a bondman": i.e. as "bondmen [are sold]".

may redeem. Compare Nehemiah 5:8.