--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . spake. See note on Leviticus 5:14 . mount Sinai. See note in title \"Leviticus\"; not out of the tabernacle. childre" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/leviticus/25" --- **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **spake.** See note on [Leviticus 5:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/14) . **mount Sinai.** See note in title "Leviticus"; not out of the tabernacle. **children.** Hebrew sons. **When, &c.** See note on [Leviticus 14:34](../../../kjv/leviticus/14/34) . **keep a sabbath.** Hebrew sabbath a sabbatizing. Figure of speech *Polyptoton.* App-6 . For emphasis = keep a sacred sabbath. **sabbath of rest.** See note on [Exodus 16:23](../../../kjv/exodus/16/23) . **undressed** = unpruned. **sabbath.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Adjunct), App-6 , for the fruits of the seventh year. **increase** = gain or profit. Hebrew. *tebu'ah.* So in verses: [Leviticus 25:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/12) , [Leviticus 25:20](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/20) ; not in verses: [Leviticus 25:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/16) , [Leviticus 25:36](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/36) , [Leviticus 25:37](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/37) . **seven sabbaths of years.** 7 *x* 7 = 49. See App-10 . **trumpet** = a curved horn of *jubilee,* i.e. of loud or joyful sound. Hebrew. *yobel.* First jubilee; the last at the Nativity (the 29th). **atonement.** See note on [Exodus 29:33](../../../kjv/exodus/29/33) . **hallow-set apart.** Hebrew. *chadash.* See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) . **proclaim** = cause public notice to be given. **holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) . **man.** Heb *'ish* . App-14 . **oppress** = overreach. **According** = in proportion. The estimation of value regulated by nearness of the jubilee. (So our estimation of value of earthly things governed by our sense of the nearness of Christ's coming.) **safety** = confidence. **What . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . (A lesson for us. God's "I will" the answer to our "What? "). **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **for ever.** Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of the Whole), App-6 , as we say "in perpetuity" = absolutely or beyond recovery. **the land is Mine.** Compare [Exodus 15:17](../../../kjv/exodus/15/17) ; [Isaiah 14:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/8) , [Isaiah 14:25](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/25) ; [Jeremiah 2:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/7) ; [Psalms 10:16](../../../kjv/psalms/10/16) ; [Psalms 78:54](../../../kjv/psalms/78/54) . **grant** = give. **redemption** = repurchase. Hebrew. *g'aal.* See note on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) . **If.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "And if". **waxen poor** = brought low. **any of his kin** = his *goel,* or redeemer, next of kin. See note on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) . **redeem** = Hebrew. *g'aal,* buy back. See note on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) . **none to redeem it** = no redeemer. **return.** The twelve loaves of [Leviticus 2](../../../kjv/leviticus/2) 4 were a witness as to the People; the jubilee ([Leviticus 25](../../../kjv/leviticus/25) ) as to the Land. **within a whole year** = within days, "days" being put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of the Part), for a whole year of days. App-6 . **the walled city** = a city that hath walls. **the cities of the Levites.** Compare the forty-eight cities, [Numbers 35:1-8](../../../kjv/numbers/35/1-8) . [Joshua 21:1-8](../../../kjv/joshua/21/1-8) . **if a man purchase of the Levites.** Should be "if one of the Levites should not redeem". **their.** Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, have "your". **fallen in decay** = "his hands have become shaky" or become feeble. **usury** (Hebrew. *nashak),* is a charge on *money.* **increase** (Hebrew. *tarbith* or *marbith)* is a charge on *goods.* See notes on [Leviticus 25:7](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/7) with [Leviticus 26:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/4) . These were the definitions of the authorities of the second temple. **and to be your God.** Jehovah became their God, by giving them Canaan. Compare [Leviticus 26:45](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/45) . **sold** , as in [2 Kings 4:1](../../../kjv/2-kings/4/1) . **brought forth.** Note the four occurrences of this expression in these two chapters: [Leviticus 26:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/13) , brought out to be free men (in relation to the Egyptians); [Leviticus 25:42](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/42) (in relation to fellow-Israelites); [Leviticus 25:38](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/38) , to be inheritors; and [Leviticus 25:55](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/55) , to be Jehovah *'* s servants. **as bondmen.** Hebrew "with the sale of a bondman": i.e. as "bondmen [are sold]". **may redeem.** Compare [Nehemiah 5:8](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/8) . ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/leviticus/25#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 25"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/leviticus/25#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/leviticus/25","name":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 25","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/leviticus/25#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"the LORD. 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