Exodus 21:2 (WEB)
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
Fathers and councils · 3
Origen
“But what need is there to point out how agreeable to sound reason, and unattended with injury either to master or slave, was the law that one of the same faith should not be allowed to continue in slavery more than six years?” — editor's note: Cf. Ex. xxi. 2 and Jer. xxxiv. 14. [An important comment on Mosaic servitude.]
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Jerome
“And if we read that every Hebrew keeps the same Passover, and that inthe seventh year every prisoner is set free, and that at Jubilee, that is the fiftieth year,every possession returns to its owner, all this refers not to the…” — editor's note: Ex. xxi. 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And that belonging to years is shewn by the seventh year, the year of Release; and it consists not only of Hebdomads, but of Hebdomads of Hebdomads, alike in days and years.” — editor's note: Ib. xxi. 2.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Against Celsus V.43.