Lev 25:21, Deu 28:8, Psa 44:4, 133:3, Mat 8:8 | TSK | STEP | I will.As it is here graciously promised, that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years, not merely for two, it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year, omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth, omitting two harvests. No legislator, unless conscious of being divinely commissioned, would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it, except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty, and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought. three years.

Leviticus 25:21

I will.As it is here graciously promised, that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years, not merely for two, it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year, omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth, omitting two harvests. No legislator, unless conscious of being divinely commissioned, would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it, except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty, and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought.

Ge 26:12; 41:47; Ex 16:29; De 28:3,8; Ps 133:3; Pr 10:22; 2Co 9:10

three years.

4,8-11

Deuteronomy 28:8

command.

Le 25:21; Ps 42:8; 44:4; 133:3

storehouses. or, barns.

Le 26:4,5,10; 2Ki 6:27; Ps 144:13; Pr 3:9,10; Hag 2:19; Mal 3:10,11

Mt 6:26; 13:30; Lu 12:18,24,25

settest.

15:10

Psalms 44:4

my king.

74:12; 89:18; 149:2; Isa 33:22

command.

42:8; Mr 1:25,26,31,41; 9:25

Psalms 133:3

As the dew of Hermon.Mr. Maundrell says, "We were sufficiently instructed by experience what the holy Psalmist means by 'the dew of Hermon,' our tents being as wet with it as if it had rained all night." Some suppose that Zion here means a part of Mount Hermon (De 4:48); but it is not written Sion here, but Zion, which is at Jerusalem.

De 3:8,9; 4:48; Jos 13:11

for there the Lord.

42:8; Le 25:21; De 28:8

even life.

16:11; 21:4; Joh 4:14; 5:24,29; 6:50,51,68; 11:25,26; Ro 5:21

Ro 6:23; 1Jo 2:25; 5:11; Re 1:18

Matthew 8:8

I am.

3:11,14; 15:26,27; Ge 32:10; Ps 10:17; Lu 5:8; 7:6,7; 15:19,21

Joh 1:27; 13:6-8

but.

3; Nu 20:8; Ps 33:9; 107:20; Mr 1:25-27; Lu 7:7