25:27 Then let him {n} count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
(n) Deducting money for the years past, and paying for the rest of the years to come.
25:27 The years of the sale - That is, from the time of the sale to the jubilee. See above, Lev 25:15,16. The overplus - That is, a convenient price for the years from this redemption to the jubilee.
25:23-34 If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price or merit of our own, we are restored to the favour of God. Houses in walled cities were more the fruits of their own industry than land in the country, which was the direct gift of God's bounty; therefore if a man sold a house in a city, he might redeem it only within a year after the sale. This encouraged strangers and proselytes to come and settle among them.
