From Nave’s Topical Bible
Liberty
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Proclaimed in the year of jubileeLeviticus 25:10Jeremiah 34:8Jeremiah 34:15–17
- PoliticalJudges 17:6Judges 21:25Acts 22:28
- See Jubilee
- FIGURATIVEIsaiah 61:2Isaiah 63:4Luke 4:19John 8:32John 8:33John 8:36Galatians 3:28Ephesians 6:8Colossians 3:11
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- 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.
Commentary on Leviticus 25:101 voice
Seven weeks of years in ancient times produced the celebrated jubilee, in which the earth kept the sabbath, debts were canceled, slaves were set free and, as it were, a new life was established again, the old one in a certain way attaining its fulfillment in the number seven.
Basil of Caesarea· LETTER 260, 379Patristic
- Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Commentary on Judges 17:61 voice
In those days there was no king in Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Commentary on Judges 21:252 voices
After a long time spent in this state of indecision and while I was still busily searching for the cause I have mentioned, there came to my mind the book of Judges, which tells how each man did what was right in his own eyes and gives the reason for this in these words: "In those days there was no king in Israel."
Basil of Caesarea· PREFACE ON THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, 379Patristic
In those days there was no king in Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
Commentary on Isaiah 61:21 voice
"Acceptable" is that year in which we were received, when we took kinship with him, having our sins washed away through holy baptism and becoming partakers of the divine nature through the sharing of the Holy Spirit. Or "acceptable" is the year in which he revealed his glory through the divine miracle attesting the message.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 5:5.61:1-3, 444Patristic
- Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
Commentary on Isaiah 63:41 voice
1103. For the day of vengeance. Here he goes through the entire order of the matter. And first, he sets out the suitableness of the time: vengeance, as to the demons; redemption, as to the just, whose recompense had been delayed until then, above: it …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
- Jeremiah 34:8
After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
Commentary on Jeremiah 34:81 voice
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jeremiah 34:15–17
Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
Commentary on Jeremiah 34:15–171 voice
And ye were now turned,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Luke 4:19
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Commentary on Luke 4:192 voices
You see the Trinity coeternal and perfect. The Scripture speaks of Jesus as both God and man, complete in both aspects: it speaks of God as the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is shown to be a cooperator when, in the form of a dove, he descended upon Christ; when the Son of God was baptized in the river, the Father spoke from heaven. Therefore, what greater testimony do we seek than the fact that the one who spoke in the Prophets, signed it with his own voice?
Ambrose of Milan· Commentary on Luke, 397Patristic
What does preaching the acceptable year of the Lord mean? It signifies the joyful tidings of his own advent, that the time of the Lord—yes, the Son—had arrived. For that was the acceptable year in which Christ was crucified on our behalf, because we then were made acceptable to God the Father as the fruit borne by him. That is why the Lord said, "When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself." Truly he returned to life the third day, having trampled on the power of death.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 12, 444Patristic
- John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Commentary on John 8:321 voice
This saying of Jesus persuades those who believe to leave behind worship that is according to the law. It teaches us that the shadow [i.e., the law] is our guide to the knowledge of him and that, leaving the types and figures behind, we should go resolutely forward to the truth itself, which is Christ the giver of true freedom, who is also our Redeemer.…And so, true salvation is not in the ordinances of the law, nor will anyone win the thrice-longed for freedom from sin by observing the law.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 5, 444Patristic
- John 8:33
“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
Commentary on John 8:331 voice
They laugh at the promise of our Saviour, rather they even take it ill, as though they were insulted. For that which has no share at all of bondage, how will it need (he says) of One Who calls us unto freedom, and Who gives us a something over and above what is in us already.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 5, 444Patristic
- John 8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Commentary on John 8:361 voice
But again, those who assert that He was simply a mere man, begotten by Joseph, remaining in the bondage of the old disobedience, are in a state of death having been not as yet joined to the Word of God the Father, nor receiving liberty through the Son, as He does Himself declare: "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book III, 202Patristic
- Acts 22:28
“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
Commentary on Acts 22:282 voices
Let it suffice to the martyr to have purged his own sins: it is the part of ingratitude or of pride to lavish upon others also what one has obtained at a high price. Who has redeemed another's death by his own, but the Son of God alone? For even in His very passion He set the robber free.
Tertullian· On Modesty, 220Patristic
And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Commentary on Galatians 3:282 voices
(Verse 27, 28.) For whoever has been baptized in Christ has clothed themselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And how we are born as children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, he demonstrates by saying: For whoever has been baptized in Christ has clothed themselves with Christ. And that Christ is our clothing is proven not only in this passage, but also in another by the urging of Paul himself: Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. XIII, 14).
Jerome· Commentary on Galatians, 420Patristic
When one has once put on Christ and, having been sent into the flame, glows with the ardor of the Holy Spirit, it is not apparent whether he is of gold or silver. As long as the heat takes over the mass in this way there is one fiery color, and all diversity of race, condition and body is taken away by such a garment.
Jerome· EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2.3.27-28, 420Patristic
- Ephesians 6:8
because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
Commentary on Ephesians 6:82 voices
That servants, when they have believed, ought to serve their carnal masters the better. In the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians: "Servants, obey your fleshly masters with fear and trembling, and ill simplicity of your heart. as to Christ; not serving for the eye, as if you were pleasing men; but as servants of God."
Cyprian· Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, 258Patristic
He shows that slavery and mastery are categories that are confined to this present life. When we pass on from here, these distinctions will no longer apply. There nothing will be based on social status, such as slave or master, but on virtue and vice.
Theodoret of Cyrus· Interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians 6.8, 458Patristic
- Colossians 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
Commentary on Colossians 3:111 voice
They moreover affirm that the Saviour is shown to be derived from all the Aeons, and to be in Himself everything by the following passage: "Every male that openeth the womb." For He, being everything, opened the womb of the enthymesis of the suffering Aeon, when it had been expelled from the Pleroma. This they also style the second Ogdoad, of which we shall speak presently.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book I, 202Patristic