[The Sable Cloud by Nehemiah Adams]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sable Cloud CHAPTER VII 22/33
Let us borrow this fancy, and apply it to the Hebrew slave. "The jubilee trumpets, and all the joyous scenes of the fiftieth year in Israel, caused multitudes of slaves in Israel, we will suppose, to reflect, This Jehovah, God of Israel, has doomed us to hopeless bondage. We are guilty of having been born so many degrees south or north, east or west, of these Hebrews.
We, by God's providence, are Gentiles.
Our chiefs sold us, and these Hebrews bought us.
We were betrayed; we were driven out of our homes; unjust wars were made upon us, to make us captives, that we might be sold.
And 'the Lord's people' bought us, by his special edict (Lev.xxv.
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