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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 24:23
The penalty is inflicted on the offender solemnly as an act of the Law, not of mob fury. So it was by a judicial or semi-judicial proceeding that St. Stephen was stoned: "They brought him to the council, and set up fals…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:1-7
The sabbatical year. Rest of the land, as the physical source of blessings, as the consecrated portion of God's people. I. THE NATURAL BASIS OF RELIGION. Creation. Providence. Moral government. "Man is one world, and ha…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:1-55
EXPOSITION The subject of the sacred seasons is taken up again in this chapter, after the parenthetical insertion of Leviticus 24:1-23. There remain the septennial festive season and that of the half-century—the sabbati…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai. The purpose of the words, in Mount Sinai, is not to distinguish the place in which the sabbatical law and the law of the jubilee were given from that in which the preceding…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:1-7
Divine discipline. This was certainly one of the most striking institutions which God gave to Israel. It was, in a high degree, disciplinary. Rightly taken, it would engrave sacred truth on their minds more deeply and e…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:1-7
The fallow year. cf. Deuteronomy 31:10-13. We have here a ceremonial appendix to the fourth commandment. The land must have its sabbath as well as man, and so every seventh year was to be fallow year for the ground. The…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:2-7
The sabbath of the seventh year could only be observed when ye come into the land which I give you. The habit of making no distraction in the seventh year during the whole of the life in the wilderness may have led to t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-55
Year of jubilee: 1. A nation's joy. On every fiftieth year of national life, as the sun went down on the great Day of Atonement, when the sins of the nation had been forgiven, and peace with God was once more assured, t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-34
The year of jubilee. Accumulation of sabbaths and sabbatical years; climax of rest. Proclaimed on Day of Atonement. Outcome of the original covenant. Specially soul-stirring and delightful, "waked up the nation from the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-55
Year of jubilee: II. The world's redemption. The whole Christian era is one long year of jubilee. It is "the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:19). That "acceptable year," the fiftieth year in the Jewish calendar, wa…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-55
The jubilee. cf. Isaiah 61:1 -13; Luke 4:18, Luke 4:19. We have here a further appendix to the fourth commandment. After seven sabbatic years there came another year, called the jubilee, which was also sabbatic, and dur…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-17
The jubilee. The sabbath of the seventh day is commemorative of the rest of God after the work of creation, and anticipative of the rest in heaven for his people after the world's great week of toil and sorrow (see Hebr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-55
Year of jubilee: III. The blessed kingdom. It may be thought that, while it is indeed true that the year of jubilee has a true counterpart in that dispensation of spiritual emancipation, social readjustment, regeneratio…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-34
The jubilee, being a year of deliverance and joy, came to be a type of the Messianic dispensation, and of the final deliverance and state of happiness which is still to come. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; beca…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:10
This verse contains a short statement of the two purposes of the jubilee: (1) to proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; (2) ye shall return every man unto his possession. Leviticus 25…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:13-17
The Israelites were only tenants of God. They might regard themselves as owners for fifty years, but at the end of every fifty years the land was to come back to him to whom the Lord had assigned it, or to his represent…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:18-22
"Not only the year of jubilee, but the sabbatical year also, commenced in the autumn, when the farmers first began to sow for the coming year; so that the sowing was suspended from the autumn of the sixth year till the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:19-21
The sabbatical year. All the Divine institutions are marked by practical wisdom, and doubtless subserved many purposes which are not distinctly mentioned in the Law. To celebrate a year of abstinence from agricultural l…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:23-34
Redemption. This subject is intimately connected with that of the jubilee; and the redemption of the Law prefigured that of the gospel, which also stands intimately related to the glorious jubilee of the great future. I…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:25-28
The right of redemption of land sold continued always alive, and might be exercised by the original owner or his kinsman. If not exercised, the owner returned into his possession at any rate in the jubilee year. If a ma…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:29-31
Houses in walled cities are not subject to the law of restoration at the jubilee, as that law applies only to lands and to men; but houses in the country are subject to the law, as they are regarded only as appurtenance…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:32-34
The houses of the Levites are, by an exception, subject to the law of jubilee. They constituted the share of the national property which was assigned to the tribe of Levi, and so far stood in the same relation to them a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:35-55
Bible. I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. It is accepted as a fact, not denounced or approved, but recognized and gradually ameliorated. 1. Hebrew slaves are not to be treated with rigour (Leviticus 25:43, Leviticus 25:53), but a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:35-38
Slavery. It is presumed that no Hebrew will become a slave except on the pressure of poverty, and this poverty his brethren are commanded to relieve; but foreseeing that either want of charity on the part of the rich or…