Then / Now
Prison, exile, and return / Incarceration, displacement, and starting again
Isaiah 61:1–4
Biblical captivity includes literal prisons, forced displacement, debt, and political domination. Its language of release asks modern readers to hold accountability together with restoration, without pretending every form of captivity is the same.
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what does biblical freedom ask of modern systems of punishment?
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