55For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-55)We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God’s sons, his first-born. Now the law is, I. That a native Israelite should never be made a bondman for perpetuity. If he was sold for debt, or for a crime, by the house of judgment, he was to se…
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