And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Ver. 31. And if the people of the land bring any ware] As they might without the Jews' leave; and did, Nehemiah 13:16, and some of those Jews, forgetting their covenant, bought of them too; even the children of Judah in Jerusalem, ib., as if they had been of her religion in the tragedy, who said,
η γλωττ ομωμοχ η δε φοην ανωμοτος .
that is, I swore with my tongue, but not with my heart. But shall they thus escape by iniquity? Be not deceived, God is not mocked; a God of truth, and without iniquity; just and right is he, Deuteronomy 32:4 .
That we would not buy it of them] Lest we should trouble and disquiet that holy rest; and God should sue us upon an action of waste; "For the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God," Exodus 20:10 Jeremiah 17:12 .
Or on the holy day] Now abrogated, Colossians 2:16 .
And that we would leave the seventh year] That Sabbatical year, prefiguring the year of grace, the kingdom of Christ, Qui noxas et nexus omnes solveret, who giveth his people a general release, Deuteronomy 15:2, and comes not over them again with a later reckoning, Peccata non redeunt. The land also was to rest from tillage this year, Exodus 23:11 .
And the exaction of every debt] For that year, at least, and the next too, if the debtor were not able to pay; the lender was to expect a recompense from God, Deuteronomy 15:6 .