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Isn't That Cool?
The Jubilee is really interesting because these release years were practiced in Babylon. They would be declared when new kings would come into power as a political tool of winning favor. And so what he draws attention to is that what was a political tool in Babylon here is like institutionalized on a Sabbath cycle. So no king can ever co-opt this. But it's the always tool as king to perpetually give each generation multiple opportunities to be their own Adam and Eve in their own garden.