16 According to the multitude of years thou ſhalt in- creaſe the price thereof: & accecrding to the fewneſs of years, thou ſhalt diminiſh the price of it : For according to the number ofthe years of the fruits a doth he ſell unto thee
a Or, For the number of the fruits, The meaning is, he ſelleth not the land, but only the fruits thereof,and rhat for a certain time.
17 Ye ſhall nor therefore oppreſs one another,but thou
(halt fear thy God: for I «aw the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye hal do my ſtatutes, and keep my
judgements, and do them, and ye ſhall dwell in the land in ſafetys | : 19 And the land ſhal yield her fruit, and ye ſhal cat your fill, and dwell therein in ſafety. 20 Andifyelbalſay, Whar ſhall we eat b the ſe- venth year ? behold, weſhall net ſow, nor gather in our increaſe. ; b A like obje&tion, See Exod: 34. 23, 24. 24 Then I will command + my bleſſing upon youin the ſixth year, and it jhal bring forth fruic for three Years Cc.
T ( 7. e. ) Give. Commanding is oft uſed in Scripture either for the performance of promiſed bleſſings, as Deut: 28+ 8. Pſal. x11. 9. and 133. 3. or for the execution of thieatned Judgments, as 1ſa. 5+ 6, Amos 9. 4. both being atts of Gods providential Will,as the com- mand is of his legiflative Will. c Not compleatly, but in great part, to wit, for that part of the ſixth year which was berween the beginning of harveſt and the beginning of the ſeventh year, for the whole ſeventh year, and for that part of the eighth year which
was before tie harveſt, which reacheth almoſt until the beginning of the ninth year. And by this expreſſion we may underſtand. the meaning of that eminent paſſage of Chriſt's being three days and three nights in the grave, to wit, one whole day and part of two days 3 Of which more, if God pleaſe, inits proper place. This is added to ſhew the equity of this command. _ As God would hereby try their Faith, and exerciſe Obedience, ſo he gave them an eminent proof of his own exaCt Providence and tender care over them in making proviſions ſuitable to their neceſſities. Albeit it be alſo probable, thar divers of them, eſpecially ſuch as were more ſoli- citous or diſtruſtful of Gods providence, did lay up ſomething of the fruits of former years againſt this time.
22 And ye ſhal fow the eighth year, and eat yer of old fruit 4 until the ninth year ; until her fruits e come in, ye hal eat of the old Fore.
d Of the ſixth year principally, if not ſolely. e ( 5:e: ) The fivits of the eighth year.
23 The land {hal not be ſold || F for everf: forthe | Or, #04;
land & mineg: forye are * ſtrangers and ſojourners quite eurof with me þ, t Heb. for
f Or, abſolutely and properly, fo as to become the proprict cutting of} buyer : Or to the extermmation or utter cutting off, to oy _ the lng *Pal. x19: from all hopes and poſlibility of Redemption. & Procured for you 19. by my power, given to you by my mere grace and bounty, and ? Pet: 2" the right of propriety reſerved by me, and to be diſpoſed of by 17s you only to ſuch perfons and in ſuch manner as I ſhall have _ dained. þ (#: e: ) In my land or houſes : thus he is ſaid ro ſojourn with another that dwells in his houſe. Thus the poor decayed 1/- raelites and the ſtrangers are ſaid to live with them, 5: e: with the other Iſraelites, to wit, in the land or houſes here, wer: 35, 36, 40 45. Or, beforeme, in my ſight, orin my account. Mtever ws your own or other mensopinions you paſs for Lords and Proprie- tors,yet in truth,according to which my judgment always is, you are but ſtrangers and ſojourners, not to poſſeſs the Land for ever bur only for a ſeaſon, &to leave it to ſuch asI have appointed for it.
24 Andin all the land of your poſſeflion, ye thail grant a redemption z for the land. £ (i:e:) Aright of redemption in the time and manner follow.
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XXV. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath-fſold away ſome of his poſſeſſion &, and ifany of his kin come to re- deemit [,then ſhal he redeem thae which his brother fold. + To wit. in the fields, but norin cities, ver: 29. | Or, If the re- dleemer come, being near akin to him,to whom the right of Redemption belonged. Ruth. 3. 2, 9, 12. Jer. 325 7: ho in this att was an emi- nent Type of Chriſt, who was made near akin tous by raking our fleſh, that he mighr perform the work of Redemption for us. + Heb: his 26 And it the man have none to redeem it f and
hm? hath himſelf be able co redeem it : attained 254 Then let him count the years of the fas thereof 2, and found _ ] reſtore the overplus » unto the man to whom ae {old Juſpcien it, that he may rerurn unto his poſſeſſion.
m (i.e, ) From thetime of the ſale to the Jubile. See above, wer. I5, 16, n( i.e ) Aconvenient price for the years from this Re- demption to the Jubile. |
28 But it he be not able to reſtore ;z to him, then that which is ſold ſhall remain inthe hand of him that hath bought it uncil the year of jubile : andin the jubile it ſhall go out 9, and he ſhall rerurn unto his poſlefigon.
o (7. e. ) Out ofthe buyers hand, without any redemprion-Money.
29 and ifa man ſella dwelling houle in a walled City, then he may redeem it within a whole year after It 1s
fHeb:d2ys ſold ; within + a full year may he redeem it. 9 orgs 20 And if it be nor redeemed within the ſpace of a an” 27-7: full year, then the houſe thatis in the walled city ſhall be eftablithed forever to him that boughr'it, throughout his generations : it ſhall not go out in the jubile p. Þ The reaſon is from the great difference between ſuch houſes and lands. The reaſon before alledged for lands do nor hold in ſuch Houſes : there was nodanger of confuſion in Tribes or Families by the alienation of Houſes. The ſelleralſo had a greater pro; riety in Houſes than in Lands, as not coming to him by Gods meer gift, bur being commonly built by the owners coſt and diligence, and therefore had a fuller power to diſpoſe of them. Beſides, God would hereby encourage perſons to buy and poſſeÞ+ Houſes inſuch places, which frequency and fulneſs of Inhabitantsin Cities, was a great ſtrength, honour and advantage to the whole Land.
21 Bur the houſes of the villages q which have no wall round about them, ſha!l be counted as the helds of the countrey : + they may be redeemed, and they thall go out in the jubile.