Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 25:14
Ye shall not oppress — Neither the seller by requiring more, nor the buyer by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it.
Ye shall not oppress — Neither the seller by requiring more, nor the buyer by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it.
Verse Leviticus 25:14. _YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER_] Ye shall take no advantage of each other's _ignorance_ either in _buying_ or _selling_; for he that buys an article at _less_ than it is wor...
SELL OUGHT - i. e., any piece of ground. OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER - Rather, overreach one another. (Compare 1 Samuel 12:3)....
4. THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE YEAR OF JUBILEE CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The Sabbatic year (Leviticus 25:1)_ 2. The jubilee (Leviticus 25:8) 3. The jubilee and the land (Leviticus 25:13) 4.
THE YEAR OF JUBILE. This law contains two large provisions, the return of estates to their original owners, and the liberation of Hebrew slaves, both in the fiftieth year. It also contains a section w...
OPPRESS. overreach....
_thou … ye_ The variation in person indicates the combination of two sources. _thy neighbour_ An unusual Heb. word (- _âmîth_), occurring in the H section eleven times, 5:21 (_bis_), Leviticus 18:20;...
The 50th year or year of Jubile. In each such year landed property shall revert to its original owner, and the price to be paid in buying and selling such possessions shall be estimated in accordance...
YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER— This would be rendered more properly, _shall not deceive one another;_ for the context evidently proves that _deceit,_ not _oppression,_ was here the evil guarded aga...
b. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE 25:8-55 RULES FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE JUBILEE 25:8-22 TEXT 25:8-22 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be unt...
_AND IF THOU SELL OUGHT UNTO THY NEIGHBOUR, OR BUYEST OUGHT OF THY NEIGHBOUR'S HAND, YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
25:14 another. (c-20) Or 'a man shall not overreach his brother.'...
THE SABBATICAL YEAR. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE The matters treated in this chapter are closely related to those in Leviticus 23, and their separation is another indication that we are dealing with a book ma...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER. — Better, _ye shall not overreach any man his brother._ Not only does the Law provide against the poor man losing his land for ever, but enjoins that in the temporary...
וְ כִֽי ־תִמְכְּר֤וּ מִמְכָּר֙ לַ עֲמִיתֶ֔ךָ...
THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE JUBILEE Leviticus 25:1 THE system of annually recurring sabbatic times, as given in chapter 23, culminated in the sabbatic seventh month. But this remarkable system of sabba...
THE JUBILEE AND THE LAND Leviticus 25:13 "In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall no...
THE SABBATICAL YEAR AND THE JUBILEE Leviticus 25:1 As the weekly Sabbath was to give septennial rest for man and beast, so the sabbatical year, returning after six years of unbroken harvests was to b...
The last section of the Book of Leviticus is occupied with setting forth laws concerning the outward signs in the land of the proof of possession, together with certain promises and warnings, all endi...
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall (h) not oppress one another: (h) By deceit, or otherwise....
_Grieve. Hebrew, "deceive not." St. Chrysostom observes, that to engage another to sell us any thing for what we know is beneath its value, is theft. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 12.) The Rabbins also decide th...
The return of every man to his own possession and to his own family, beside the mercy of the thing itself; certainly, had this very important point in view; namely, to preserve in proper distinction t...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
Chapter 25. The land itself is held for Jehovah, as being His; it must enjoy God's rest; and moreover he who had lost his inheritance therein should find it again, according to the counsels of God, at...
AND IF THOU SELL OUGHT UNTO THY NEIGHBOUR,.... Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee: OR BUYEST [OUGHT] OF THY NEIGHBOUR'S HAND; of movable goods, as the Tar...
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: Ver. 14. _Ye shall not oppress._] But proceed by that golden rule, "Whatever ye...
_Ye shall not oppress_ Neither the seller, by requiring more, nor the buyer, by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it....
1 The Sabbath of the seuenth yeere. 8 The Iubile in the fiftieth yeere. 14 Of oppression. 18 A blessing of obedience. 23 The redemption of land, 29 Of houses. 35 Compassion of the poore. 39 The...
And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buyest aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another, not overreach or practice fraud;...
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE...
THE SEVENTH YEAR SABBATH (VV. 1-7) Here was a wonderful provision for Israel every seven years. When they came into their land, they were to plant their land for six years and reap its fruits. But th...
8-22 The word "jubilee" signifies a peculiarly animated sound of the silver trumpets. This sound was to be made on the evening of the great day of atonement; for the proclamation of gospel liberty an...
Neither the seller by requiring more, nor the buyer by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it....
The intelligent reader will discern a strong moral link between this and the preceding chapter. In Leviticus 24:1-23 we learn that the house of Israel is preserved for the land of Canaan. In chapter 2...
Leviticus 25:14 sell H4376 (H8799) anything H4465 neighbor H5997 buy H7069 (H8800) neighbors H5997 hand H3027
THE YEAR OF YUBILE. THE YEAR OF GRAND RELEASE (LEVITICUS 25:8). The year of grand release might well never have been put fully into practise throughout the whole of Israel, as it required full ownersh...
Leviticus 25:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sab...
CONTENTS: Laws of the land. Sabbatic year and year of Jubilee. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The blessing of God upon our provision will make a little go a long way and satisfy even the poor w...
Leviticus 25:4. The _seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest._ While the Hebrews continued faithful under the Theocracy of heaven, they were the happiest people in the world. A sabbatical year was a y...
_A Sabbath of rest unto the land._ THE SABBATIC YEAR AND JUBILEE 1. I do not suppose that these sabbatic regulations referred severally to separate and distinct things. The seventh day, the seventh m...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:13 The PRICE of PROPERTY must be calculated in terms of how many YEARS have passed since the jubilee, since it is not the property itself that
The Fear of Jubilee SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 25:1.—Then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord. For a whole year the land ceased to be the property of the owner; he might not till the soil,...
EXPOSITION The subject of the sacred seasons is taken up again in this chapter, after the parenthetical insertion of Leviticus 24:1. There remain the septennial festive season and that of the half-ce...
Now as we get into chapter twenty-five, they were to give the land a Sabbath day's rest or Sabbath year. They were to plant the land for six years, the seventh year they were to let the land rest. Rea...
1 Corinthians 6:8; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; 2 Chronicles 16:10;...