Ecclesiasticus 52:3

Nova Vulgata

Quia haec dicit Dominus: "Gratis venumdati estis et sine argento redimemini".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
quia hæc dicit Dominus : Gratis venundati estis, et sine argento redimemini.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quia hæc dicit Dominus:
Gratis venundati estis,
et sine argento redimemini.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 45:13, Isaiah 50:1, Psalms 44:12, Jeremiah 15:13, 1 Peter 1:18, Romans 7:14-25

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:54 - then Deuteronomy 32:30 - sold them 1 Kings 21:20 - thou hast sold 1 Kings 21:25 - sell himself Isaiah 52:5 - people Isaiah 55:1 - without money Ezekiel 16:31 - in that thou scornest Ezekiel 34:27 - when I Luke 4:18 - to preach deliverance

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord, ye have sold yourselves for nought,.... As Ahab did to work wickedness; as men do freely, and get nothing by it; for there is nothing got in the service of sin, Satan, and antichrist, or by being slaves and vassals to them; not profit, but loss; not pleasure, but pain; not honour, but shame; not liberty, but bondage; not riches and wealth, but poverty and want, which Popery always brings into those countries and people where it obtains.

And ye shall be redeemed without money; in like manner as our spiritual and eternal redemption from sin, Satan, and the law, the world, death, and hell, is obtained; not without the price of the precious blood of the Lamb, but without such corruptible things as silver and gold, 1 Peter 1:18 and without any price paid to those by whom we are held captive, but to God, against whom we have sinned, whose law we have broken, and whose justice must be satisfied; and the blood of Christ is a sufficient price to answer all: hence redemption, though it cost Christ much, is entirely free to us; so will the redemption of the church, from the bondage and slavery of antichrist, be brought about by the power of God undeserved by them; not through their merits, and without any ransom price paid to those who held them captives.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have sold yourselves for nought - You became captives and prisoners without any price being paid for you. You cost nothing to those who made you prisoners. The idea is, that as they who had made them prisoners had done so without paying any price for them, it was equitable that they should be released in the same manner. When their captors had paid nothing for them, God would suffer nothing to be paid for them in turn; and they should be released, as they had been sold, without a price paid for them. Perhaps God intends here to reproach them for selling themselves in this manner without any compensation of any kind, and to show them the folly of it; but, at the same time, he intends to assure them that no price would be paid for their ransom.

Ye shall be redeemed - You shall be delivered from your long and painful captivity without any price being paid to the Babylonians. This was to be a remarkable proof of the power of God. Men do not usually give up captives and slaves, in whatever way they may have taken them, without demanding a price or ransom. But here God says that he designs to effect their deliverance without any such price being demanded or paid, and that as they had gone into captivity unpurchased, so they should return unpurchased. Accordingly he so overruled events as completely to effect this. The Babylonians, perhaps, in no way could have been induced to surrender them. God, therefore, designed to raise up Cyrus, a mild, just, and equitable prince; and to dispose him to suffer the exiles to depart, and to aid them in their return to their own land. In this way, they were rescued without money and without price, by the interposition of another.