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John Trapp on Nehemiah 10:31

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Nehemiah10:31

Verſe 31. And if the people of the land bring any ware] As they might without the Jewes leave: and did, chap. 13.16. and ſome of theſe Jewes, forgetting their Covenant, bought of them too: even the children of Juda in Jeruſalem, ib. as if they had been of her religion in the tragedy, who ſaid, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. that is, I ſwore with my tongue, but not with my heart. But ſhall they thus eſcape by iniquity? Be not deceived, God is not mocked: A God of truth, and without iniquity; juſt and right is he, Deut. 32.4.

That we would not buy it of them] Leſt we ſhould trouble and diſquiet that holy Reſt; and God ſhould ſue us upon an Action of waſt: For the ſeventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, Exod. 20.11. Jer. 17.21.

Or on the holy day] Now abrogated Col. 2.16.

And that we would leave the ſeventh yeare] That Sabbaticall yeare, prefiguring the year of Grace, the Kingdome of Chriſt, Qui noxas & nexus omnes ſolveret, who giveth his people a generall releaſe, Deut. 15.2. and comes not over them againe with an after-reckoning. Peccata non redeunt. The Land alſo was to reſt from tillage this year, Exod. 23.11

And the exaction of every debt] For that year at leaſt, and the next too, if the debter were not able to pay; the lender was to expect a recompenſe from God, Deut. 15.6.

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