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The year of release
>1At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed. 3You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
Now why do I bring up this verse?
The reason is because I believe it to be a great forshadowing to the works of Christ, calling us to do like He will/did.
Through sin we amass guilt towards our Lord Christ Jesus, a form of spiritual debt. This debt is forgiven to us by our Lord, and so we likewise should forgive the debt of others and this is directly referenced in the prayer of the "Father Ours"
>12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Likewise when it comes to slavery we are told
>12If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is soldb to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
This is likewise a foreshadowing of how Christ releases us of the slavery from sin
>19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
Now it tells us to do so only towards hebrews or rather towards our own people, excluding foreigners. This is a reference to God forgiving the faithful, those of His congregation where as the others, the foreigners are judged, keeping their debt and staying in slavery.
