{The acceptable year of the Lord} (eniauton Kuriou
dekton). He does not mean that his ministry is to be only one
year in length as Clement of Alexandria and Origen argued. That
is to turn figures into fact. The Messianic age has come, Jesus
means to say. On the first day of the year of Jubilee the priests
with sound of trumpet proclaimed the blessings of that year ( Le
25:8-17 ). This great passage justly pictures Christ's conception
of his mission and message.