9按照杨氏汇编（Young'sConcordance），禧年原意为喊叫的时候。当然，这喊叫不是哀伤的，乃是欢乐的；这是欢乐的喊叫。神知道就经济一面来说，古时候以色列人中的天然资源需要平衡。以色列人进入美地以后，他们都分得一分土地。没有一分地可以永远卖断。在禧年，每一分卖出的地都要归回原主。在禧年以前的年日，有些人可能无法守住产业。他们因著贫穷或疾病，被迫卖出全部或部分的产业。然而，在禧年的时候，喊叫的时候，地要还给原主。这地的归回，乃是神在子民中平衡地之所有权的方法。这样，就不可能有地主。在神的智慧里，神圣的条例、神圣的典章乃是对天然资源的平衡。这典章每五十年生效一次。我们由此可见，三十五个世纪以前，远在马克斯发明共产主义之前，神为著地的平衡，在神圣话语中已经定规。每五十年，不需要原主作甚么或付出甚么，地就归回原主，再次成为他们的产业。在豫表中，禧年描绘出我们这些可怜罪人的光景：我们活得越久，我们所分得神圣的分也失去得越多。因著我们有罪的生活方式，我们失去了神圣的权利。我们犯罪越多，失去的神圣权利也就越多。至终，我们把生来所继承的一切都卖掉了。我们甚至丧失了自己。我们不是将自己卖给正确的买主，乃是卖给撒但和罪。因此保罗说，『我是属肉的，是已经卖给罪了。』（罗七14下。）我们都像保罗一样，是卖给罪的奴仆；我们丧失自己的权利，给了撒但。我们不该将撒但和罪看作分开的二者。这二者乃是一。因此，我们把自己卖给罪，就是把自己卖给撒但；我们受罪辖制，就是落入撒但手里。我们这些亚当的后裔，都把神分给我们的权利卖了，甚至把自己也卖给了罪和撒但。我们对自己的光景无能为力，没有办法救赎自己。我们毫无盼望。然后，有一天，禧年来了。
9According to Young’s Concordance, the Hebrew word for jubilee means a time of shouting. This shouting is, of course, not of mourning but of rejoicing; it is a joyful shouting. God realized that in ancient times there was, economically speaking, the need for natural resources to be balanced among the children of Israel. After the Israelites entered into the good land, the land was divided among them by lots. None of these lots was to be sold permanently. Rather, in the year of jubilee any lots that had been sold were to be returned to the original owners. During the years before the jubilee, some of the people might not have been able to keep their property. Because of poverty or illness they might have been forced to sell their property in whole or in part. However, at the time of jubilee, at the time of shouting, the land reverted to its owner. This return of the land was God’sway of balancing the ownership of land among the people. Thus there could not be any landlords, for in God’s wisdom the divine regulation, the divine ordinance, was a balance of the natural resources. This ordinance was to be put into effect every fifty years. From this we see that thirty - five centuries ago, a long time before Marx invented communism, God made provision in the holy Word for the balance of the land. Every fifty years, without the original owners doing anything or paying anything, the land was returned to them and once again became their possession. In type, the jubilee portrays our situation as poor sinners. Our situation was that the longer we lived, the more we lost of our divinely allotted portion. Because we lived in a sinful way, we lost the divine rights. The more we committed sin, the more of these rights we lost. Eventually, we sold all that we had inherited by birth. We even lost ourselves. We sold ourselves not to a proper buyer but to Satan and sin. This was the reason Paul could say, “I am fleshly, sold under sin” (Rom. 7:14b). Lake Paul, we also were slaves sold to sin; we had lost to Satan our rights. We should not consider Satan and sin two separate things. These two are one. Therefore, when we sold ourselves to sin, we sold ourselves to Satan and thus fell into the hands of Satan under sin. As descendants of Adam, we all had sold the rights allotted to us by God and even sold ourselves to sin and Satan. Furthermore, we could do nothing about our situation; we did not have the means to redeem ourselves. We were hopeless. Then one day, jubilee came.