23 Verse 23.
The land shall not be sold for ever-the land is mine] As God in a miraculous manner gave them possession of
this land, they were therefore to consider themselves merely as
tenants to him; and on this ground
he, as the great landholder
or lord of the soil, prescribes to them all the conditions on
which they shall hold it. This one circumstance was peculiarly
favourable to their advancement in religion, in righteousness,
and true holiness; for feeling that they had nothing which they
could call their
own upon earth, they must frequently, by this,
be put in mind of the necessity of having a permanent dwelling
in the heavenly inheritance, and of that preparation without
which it could not be possessed.