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Leviticus 25:10

The New Testament’s use of Leviticus

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 4:16-21

'To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord' and 'release/aphesis' evoke the Jubilee of Leviticus 25, when liberty is proclaimed and debts/captives released. Isaiah 61 itself draws on Jubilee language; Luke makes the year-of-release motif programmatic, giving strong Coherence and Availability.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Gal 5:1 ?

The Jubilee proclamation of 'liberty (deror) throughout the land' may underlie Paul's stress on the freedom for which Christ liberated. Coherence is real (release from debt-servitude) but volume is faint; the verbal link runs through the LXX language of eleutheria rather than direct citation.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Leviticus 25
Leviticus 25:42 2Leviticus 25:43 2Leviticus 25:55 2