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was fit that he should be redeemed at the public charge," which we find done, Ne 5:8. The price of his ransom was to be computed according to the prospect of the year of jubilee (Le 25:50-52), as in the redemption of land, Le 25:15,16. The learned bishop Patrick quotes one of the Jewish rabbin for an evangelical exposition of that appointment (Le 25:48), One of his brethren shall redeem him. "This Redeemer," says the rabbi, "is the Messiah, the Son of David." They expected this Messiah to be their Redeemer out of their captivity, and to restore them to their own land again; but we welcome him as the Redeemer who shall come to Zion, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob, for he shall save his people from their sins; and under this notion there were those that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other
shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the
year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus-26
The Blessings of Obedience
1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
2 Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
Lord.
The inculcating of those precepts of the law which were of the greatest consequence, and by which were of the greatest consequence, and by which especially their obedience would be tried, Le 26:1,2. They are the abstract of the second and fourth commandments, which, as they are by much the