Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 25:23
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Leviticus25:23
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Or, absolutely and properly, so as to become the propriety of the buyer: Or to the extermination or utter cutting off, to wit, of the seller from all hopes and possibility of Redemption.
Procured for you by my power, given to you by my meer grace and bounty, and the right of propriety reserved by me and to be disposed of by you onely to such persons and in such manner as I shall have ordained.
(i. e.) In my land or houses thus he is said to sojourn with another that dwells in his house. Thus the poor decayed Israelites and the strangers are said to live with them i. e. with the other Israelites, to wit, in the land or houses, here ver. 35, 36, 40, 45. Or, before me, in my sight, or in my account. Howsoever in your own or other mens opinions you pass for Lords and Proprietors, yet in truth, according to which my judgment always is, you are but strangers, and sojourners not to possess the land for ever but onely for a season, and to leave it to such as I have appointed for it.
Marginal references: Or, to be quite cut off.; Heb. for cutting off.; Psal. 119. 19. 1 Pet. 2. 11.
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