namely, identical with the seventh ecclesiastical year; after which, (in the ninth month of each year,) we find six years of sowing, and then the Sabbath again in the seventh. Then again Figure 2 shows the Sabbatical years, according to the popular view, each uniting the sixth year and the seventh, and still six years of sowing between them made out, it is true, in a different way from the former, and in the following manner; the Sabbath, according to this view, having begun in the seventh month of the sixth year, reached to the corresponding month of the seventh, in the ninth month of which year sowing began, and went on every year to the ninth month of the fifth year.— Thus still we have the six years of sowing; so that this does not serve as an argument in support of my view. No-this is quite true; but now let us proceed to the following Figure 3, where the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee are shown as coming together; and how is it now with regard to the six years of sowing? The Sabbatical year (still taking the aforesaid popular view) here reaches from the seventh month of the sixth year to the corresponding month of the seventh: while the Jubilee (according to Scripture, observe) reaches from the seventh month of the seventh year to the seventh month of the eighth, namely, the first year of the following week. The consequence is, that in the seventh year (seeing that this formed a part of the Jubilee) no sowing took place; nor did it begin till the ninth month of the eighth, or the first year above-named, continuing from thence every year to the ninth month of the fifth year. Thus we reckon in this case only five years of sowing; and if it were so at this time, it would be so at all times, seeing that the law connected with the Sabbatical year was unaffected of course by the return of the Jubilee at the end of every forty-ninth year. Thus following, as I have done, for the sake of our argument, the popular view, we reach a conclusion altogether opposed to the Lord's word enjoining six years of sowing, which shows that the Sabbath did not begin in the midst of the sixth year, or otherwise than I have expressed it, namely, with the month Nisanthe first month of the seventh ecclesiastical year.

The truth is, that while the word is decisive in showing that the JUBILEE, following the civil computation, opened with Tizri, the seventh month of the forty-ninth year, nothing similar is said as to the SABBATH beginning in this way, in the midst of

a year, which surely would be the case if it were so. No; on the contrary, it followed on in the train of the ecclesiastical years, beginning, like the foregoing six years of labour, not with Tizri, the seventh month, but with Nisan, or Abib, the first month; being, moreover, styled the seventh year, on common occasions, and evidently shown to be the seven times seventh, or forty-ninth year, at such times as the Jubilee happened. This is quite clear. And as to there being, as above said, any cessation from labour at all in the sixth year, this was not the case. They reaped and gathered in-yes, and they sowed too, as I have before said, in Chisleu, the ninth month of this year; and though what was sown was not reaped in the seventh year, it is true, the crop was not on this account lost, for the reasons already assigned in connection with the THREEFOLD SUPPLY IN THE

But here an objection arises with regard to this point, which I now turn to answer. "Six years," we read, "thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof." Now, here I may be told, that while I maintain that the Jews were to sow, I lose sight of the fact that they were (according to the law in the above cited scripture,) also to reap for six years, which they could not possibly do, if my view is correct; inasmuch as if they did not sow in the seventh year, there could be no harvest at all the next year and so there would be left only five years of sowing between each Sabbatical year. And now, looking again at the passage in question, what is there said, let me ask, of reaping at all? Nothing, I apprehend; the word is not even mentioned; no, nor do I believe it to be implied, as some may suppose, in the phrase "gather in." The latter appears to me exclusively to relate to the fruit of the vineyard spoken of immediately before, and not to that of the cornfieldto the vintage, and not to the harvest. And hence, while I reckon six years of sowing-six of pruning and ingathering, I reckon, on the other hand, (seeing that there were actually no more, as I believe) only five years of sowing between one Sabbatical year and another. What I have before said, of necessity leads me to a conclusion of this kind; and the above passage, as I have endeavoured to show, in which the number of harvests within the course of the Levitical week is not specified,

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