inhabitants] Which were in bondage. a Jubile unto you] Some take the word from Jubal the first inventour of instruments of musicke; because it was a yeer of rejoycing; but the more received etymology is from Jobel, which signifieth a ram, because the Jubile was proclaimed in the townes and cities of Israel with the sound of trumpets made of rams hornes. The first Mosaicall Jubile was about the yeere 2501. his possession] Of immoveable goods, as lands, and houses, which was no wrong to them that bought or took them before, because they were not put over from one to another without the condition of restitution (either expressed or implyed) in the yeere of Jubile; and the price was proportionable, more or lesse, according to the distance, or neernesse of the yeare of release; and this God ordained, partly for restraint of concupiscence of others estates, (for men would not so much desire them upon these terms, as if they might purchase them for perpetuity, to them, and their heires for ever) and partly that they should not be too proud of what they obtained, since they must be sure to part with it againe: and it was likewise for the comfort of such as were decayed, & impoverished, & to preserve such an equalitie as might keepe out Tyranny and confusion of tribes and families, which were to be upheld in their estate and condition, whether of sufficiencie, or plenty and dignity, wherein they had formerly been. Besides this, it may be (as some conceive) that this restitution in the yeere of Jubile, was a type of restitution to a right and possession of the celestiall Canaan upon the sound of the trumpet of the resurrection, though men forfeited their right by sin, and were (as it were) cast out of it by excommunication out of the church belowe, a type, as well as a part of the congregation of the first born above. Hebrews 12:23.