Leviticus 25:35-55 - Homilies By R.a. Redford

The law of personal servitude.

I. GENERAL PRINCIPLE , love of our neighbour. Servitude admitted in that early stage of the world, but limited and modified, and its extinction provided for in that principle of love and compassion which was seized and exalted by the gospel. God's method to subdue and extinguish effects of man's fall by the vital force of higher motive. Distinction between strangers and fellow-Israelite preserved the covenant, therefore the religion which taught love and saved the stranger.

II. LESSON OF UNSELFISHNESS AND UNWORLDLINESS . All servants of the Lord. All property his. The underlying facts of redemption, "bought with a price, therefore glorify God," etc.—R.