Jon Collins

That type of maximizing profit at the expense of human life and flourishing is viewed as a chaotic death force in the world.

And Yahweh liberated his people from that.

And so now the weekly Shabbat is a way of reenacting.

This is like a liberation day.

Every seventh day is a liberation day.

At all.

Yeah, sure.

That's right.

So you can see a trajectory headed that direction.

Every seventh year, the scaled up annual version of the seventh year was about the forgiveness of debt and the release of slaves, Israelite slaves.

Not non-Israelite slaves, but Israelite slaves.

And then the Jubilee was about forgiveness of debts, release of slaves, and anybody who lost land in the last 49 years gets that returned back to them too, which was often, of course, something that caused people to sell themselves into slavery was they lost their family land.

So I guess what you can say is

Yeah, God didn't work within human history to drop the conviction of what took humans many later generations to own as their own conviction.

He didn't drop that back in history, but he did set... Set it in motion.

He did something in history that set in motion a trajectory, a liberationist trajectory of

that ended in the abolition of the slave trade in certain cultures.

Of course, different forms of different slave trades still exist in the world today.

But...

I just want to acknowledge your point.