Leviticus 25 in the early church

71 passages quote, allude to, or echo Leviticus 25, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 3 · 4 · 6 · 8 · 10 · 13 · 20 · 23 · 25 · 26 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 · 35 · 36 · 37 · 39 · 55

Leviticus 25:3

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

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Lev 25:3–5Demonstration 20.2 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Lev 25:3–4Tractates on the Psalms 118.2.11 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, medium confidenceca. 360–367

Leviticus 25:4

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

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Lev 25:4PG 12:1075 (Ps 1 LXX) · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 25:4On Prayer 27.14 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 233–234
Lev 25:4Commentary on Matthew 15.31 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 246–248
Lev 25:4Preparation for the Gospel 8.7.15 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 313–324
Lev 25:4Tractates on the Psalms 118.3.7 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:4Oration 41.1 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, high confidenceca. 362–383
Lev 25:4Letter 36.9 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 25:4Apostolic Constitutions 7.36.4 · Anonymousallusion, medium confidenceca. 380
Lev 25:4Exposition of Psalm 118 5.10.2 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 386-397

Leviticus 25:6

Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

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Lev 25:6Preparation for the Gospel 8.7.19 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, medium confidenceca. 313–324
Lev 25:6On Fleeing the World 45 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-391

Leviticus 25:8

And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

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Lev 25:8On First Principles 2.11.5 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Lev 25:8PG 12:1075 (Ps 1 LXX) · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 25:8On Prayer 27.16 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 233–234
Lev 25:8–13Tractates on the Psalms 118.5.6 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:8–13Tractates on the Psalms 118.20.6 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:8–10Tractates on the Psalms 118.21.5 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:8–12Book of Heresies 107.9 · Philastrius of Bresciaallusion, high confidenceca. 380s
Lev 25:8–13Sermon 139 · Peter Chrysologusallusion, high confidenceca. 425-450

Leviticus 25:10

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

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Lev 25:10Miscellanies 2.18.86 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, high confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 25:10Miscellanies 6.11.87 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, low confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 25:10On Prayer 27.14 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 233–234
Lev 25:10Homilies on Numbers 5.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 25:10Commentary on the Song of Songs 1.99 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Lev 25:10Commentary on Matthew 11.3 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 246–248
Lev 25:10Commentary on Matthew 15.31 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 246–248
Lev 25:10Letter 260 · Basil of Caesareaallusion, high confidenceca. 357–378
Lev 25:10Tractates on the Psalms 0.10 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, medium confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:10Tractates on the Psalms 118.3.7 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:10–13Tractates on the Psalms 118.4.5 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:10Tractates on the Psalms 118.21.4 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:10Tractates on the Psalms 150.1 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, low confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 25:10Oration 41.1 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, high confidenceca. 362–383
Lev 25:10Question 112, section 1 · Ambrosiasterallusion, high confidenceca. 370–384
Lev 25:10Letter 36.9 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 25:10Letter 78.14 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 25:10Letter 121.6 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 370–419
Lev 25:10Apostolic Constitutions 7.36.4 · Anonymousallusion, high confidenceca. 380
Lev 25:10On Noah 123 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 378-384
Lev 25:10Apology of the Prophet David 42 · Ambroseallusion, high confidenceca. 384-390
Lev 25:10Exposition of Psalm 118 5.11.1 · Ambroseallusion, high confidenceca. 386-397
Lev 25:10–13Against Jovinianus 2.18 · Jeromeallusion, high confidence393
Lev 25:10Against Jovinianus 2.25 · Jeromeallusion, high confidence393
Lev 25:10Formulae of Spiritual Understanding 9 · Eucherius of Lyonquotation, medium confidenceca. 420-430
Lev 25:10–13Sermon 126 · Peter Chrysologusallusion, high confidenceca. 425-450
Lev 25:10Instructions 2.8 · Eucherius of Lyonallusion, high confidenceca. 428-434
Lev 25:10–13Part 2, chapter 1 · Quodvultdeus of Carthageallusion, high confidenceca. 445-450

Leviticus 25:13

In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

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Lev 25:13Question 112, section 1 · Ambrosiasterallusion, high confidenceca. 370–384
Lev 25:13Apology of the Prophet David 42 · Ambroseallusion, high confidenceca. 384-390

Leviticus 25:20

Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

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Lev 25:20–22Demonstration 20.2 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345

Leviticus 25:23

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

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Lev 25:23Exhortation to the Greeks 10.94 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, high confidenceca. 190–200
Lev 25:23–34Commentary on Jeremiah 6.32 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 414-419

Leviticus 25:25

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

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Lev 25:25–37Leviticus, lines 225–247 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.

Leviticus 25:26

Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

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Lev 25:26Homilies on Leviticus 15.2 · Origenquotation, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 25:29

If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

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Lev 25:29Homilies on Leviticus 15.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 25:30

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

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Lev 25:30Homilies on Leviticus 15.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 25:31

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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Lev 25:31Homilies on Leviticus 15.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 25:32

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.

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Lev 25:32Homilies on Leviticus 15.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 25:32Homilies on Leviticus 15.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 25:33

So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

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Lev 25:33Homilies on Leviticus 15.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 25:33Homilies on Leviticus 15.3 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 25:35

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

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Lev 25:35On Tobit 52 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 380-390

Leviticus 25:36

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

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Lev 25:36Miscellanies 2.18.84 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 25:36–37Demonstration 14.3 · Aphrahatallusion, medium confidence337-345
Lev 25:36On Tobit 7 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 380-390
Lev 25:36–37Canonical Letter, Migne PG 45:233 · Gregory of Nyssaallusion, low confidenceca. 390

Leviticus 25:37

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

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Lev 25:37On Tobit 52 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 380-390

Leviticus 25:39

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

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Lev 25:39–55Leviticus, lines 248–272 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.

Leviticus 25:55

For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 25:55Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting 2 · Tertullianquotation, high confidenceca. 211–213