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MONTHLY REPOSITORY .- ¦ . ¦¦ « i ' T * * ( " ¦ . . ¦ V ' . ¦ . . * .. '* . -. . J - * ¦ ¦ . ¦ ,: ' ' :, ' . - . OF Theology and General Literature *
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March fly 1752 , Dear——— ' ' " ¦ "" "" V : * ¦! ' ¦ In your fetter of the 4 th insL you JSiit the question , Whether there is any * evidence in Josephus , or any of the Jewish historian ? , that God's promise to the Jews , that their lands * sliould yield an extraordinary Increase * th <^ sixth year , in eorfsequence of tAeir lying uncultivated the seventh , was constantly , or for any space of time , fulfilled V
In answer to which , I observe , Josephus iri his Antiquities ^ b . xi . ch . 8 . says , that when the Jews had appeased Alexander , who had beeix qfljended with their conduct , during the siege of Tyre , they cc presented a petition to hiin , that they might be pernutted to live according to the laws of their
country , and be exempted every seventh year from paying tribute , because that year , according to their law , they neither SQwed nor reaped /> Which implies , that they were under some disadvau-^ age at tha . t time , and pould not
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then so well pay tribute as at arf * other time . He has . besides , j believe , several times spoken of their not sowing the seventh year , i and , usually ,, some difficulties or ihcoaveniencies attendee !; thein . Ho wever ^ from hinpi it clearly ap * pears ^ that the Jews , after the re ^ turn from the Babylonish captiyi- < ty , endeavoured to obs ^ rvettheMosaic laws cuncerfling th ^ sever ^ tjx year . But I do not recollect ^
that he ever speaks of their observing the fiftieth year , the fbrty-ninth year , or tUe year of Jubilee . The , ^ instit ution of the sabbatical seventh year , and year of Jubilee , . you , inay see Lev . xxv , and perceive what things were then to be done ,, about
re-Iqasjn ^ of pervaai ^ , and the re * turn o ' f lani ( s to their' ownerj . This last , relating especially to lancls ^ could not be observed after the return from the captivity , be * c ^ u § e the Jews were not then severally settled on tlie lands be ,-longing to their tribes . I once in , I believe ^ tyfp dis *
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OIllGINAi IJETTKR OF D ! t , tARDNEft ' s , ON THE JEWISH SABBATIC YEAR . To Mr . Ncal *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/1/
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