Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 25:6
The sabbath of the land — That is, the growth of the sabbath, or that fruit which groweth in the sabbatical year. For thy servant — For all promiscuously, to take food from thence as they need it.
The sabbath of the land — That is, the growth of the sabbath, or that fruit which groweth in the sabbatical year. For thy servant — For all promiscuously, to take food from thence as they need it.
THE SABBATH OF THE LAND SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU - That is, the produce of the untilled land (its “increase,” Leviticus 25:7) shall be food for the whole of you in common, rich and poor without distincti...
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.
LEVITICUS 25. THE YEAR OF SABBATH AND OF JUBILE. Leviticus 25:1. The Year of Sabbath (H). This is an ancient Hebrew institution (p. 102), _cf._ Exodus 23:10 *, where the law of a fallow every seventh...
SABBATH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct), App-6, for the fruits of the seventh year....
_the sabbath_ i.e. the produce during the year of rest. Instead of storing it as in each of the six years, they were only to gather it from time to time when needed for food. Much of the grain in Pale...
The rest year was a transference to the _land_of the sabbatical idea emphasized each week for _living creatures_, the year being now taken as the unit instead of the day. See App. I, pp. 172 f. for th...
4. SABBATICAL AND JUBILEE YEARS 25:1-55 a. THE SABBATICAL YEAR 25:1-7 TEXT 25:1-7 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whe...
_THAT WHICH GROWETH OF ITS OWN ACCORD OF THY HARVEST THOU SHALT NOT REAP, NEITHER GATHER THE GRAPES OF THY VINE UNDRESSED: FOR IT IS A YEAR OF REST UNTO THE LAND._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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...
AND THE SABBATH OF THE LAND. — That is, the growth or produce during this sabbath of the land. For the figure of speech see Lev. 18:38. SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU. — That is, it shall serve as your food, b...
וְ֠ הָיְתָה שַׁבַּ֨ת הָ אָ֤רֶץ לָכֶם֙ לְ
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 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 the (d) sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, (d) That which the l...
_They. Hebrew and Septuagint, "The sabbath of the earth shall be meat for you" in common._...
Was not the extensiveness of this mercy, in reaching to all ranks and orders of the people, intended to shadow forth the extensiveness of that mercy which JESUS by his glorious redemption hath accompl...
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 THE SABBATH OF THE LAND SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU,...., That is, that which grew up of itself but of the land, or on trees, vines, olives, c. undressed, should be the meat or food on which they should...
_And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,_ Ver. 6. _Shall be meat...
_The sabbath of the land_ That is, the accidental crop that grew in the sabbatical year. _Shall be meat for you_ For all promiscuously, to take food from thence as you need. It is true the land would...
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 the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee and for thy servant and for thy maid, both male and female slaves being named, AND FOR THY HIRED SERVANT, AND FOR THY STRANGER THAT SOJOURNE...
THE SEVENTH YEAR...
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...
1-7 All labour was to cease in the seventh year, as much as daily labour on the seventh day. These statues tell us to beware of covetousness, for a man's life consists not in the abundance of his pos...
THE SABBATH, i.e. the growth of the sabbath, or that fruit which groweth in the sabbatical year. See on LEVITICUS 23:38, where the word _sabbath_ is taken in the like sense. FOR THEE, AND FOR THY SERV...
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 25:6 sabbath H7676 land H776 food H402 male H5650 servants H519 man H7916 stranger H8453 dwells H1481 ...
THE SABBATICAL YEAR (LEVITICUS 25:1). Leviticus 25:1 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,' Again we have stressed that here we have God's word to Moses. Leviticus 25:2 “Speak to
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 25:1 The practice of allowing no organized farming in the SEVENTH YEAR clearly benefits the soil. It also recognizes that all produce belongs to God and that he gives it fr...
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...
Acts 2:44; Acts 4:32; Acts 4:34; Acts 4:35; Exodus 23:11...