MInd-blowing thought

I'm currently copyediting a commentary on Leviticus (not scheduled for publication until late 2024) and ran across this on Thursday, which blew my mind. I'm still processing it. I thought I had blogged it last week, but was looking through my miscellaneous notes and saw it.

Never in Scripture do we find that God sanctifies space. Although the world is his creation, he does not hallow it.—Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 23–27: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 1962

I did a bit of digging, and a few scholars reference it, all apparently approvingly. I haven't (yet) found any disagreement, but I'd love to access the full Anchor Bible volume to get the rest of the context. Alas, Google books only allows search inside, but I did just discover that the Internet Archive has a copy I can check out for an hour. I'll have to do some digging…