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Deuteronomy 15
Orders concerning the release of debts every seventh year,
ver. 1-6. Concerning lending, ver. 7-11. Concerning the release of
servants, ver. 12-18. Concerning the firstlings, ver. 19-23.
Verse 1. At the end - That is, in the last year of the seven, as is, most
evident from ver. 9. And this year of release, as it is, called below,
ver. 9, is the same with the sabbatical year, Exod. xxiii, 11.
Verse 2. Every creditor - Here is, a law for poor, insolvent debtors.
Every seventh year was a year of release, when among other acts
of grace, this was one, that every Israelite, who had borrowed
money, and had not been able to pay it before, should this year be
released from it. And tho' if he was able, he was bound in
conscience to pay it afterwards, yet it could not be recovered by
law. His brother - This is added to limit the word neighbour,
which is more general, unto a brother, in nation and religion, an
Israelite. The Lord's release - Or, a release for the Lord, in
obedience to his command, for his honour, and as an
acknowledgment of his right in your estates, and of his kindness
in giving and continuing them to you.
Verse 4. Save when there shall be no poor - The words may be rendered
thus, as in the margin of our Bibles, To the end that there be no
poor among you. And so they contain a reason of this law,
namely, that none be impoverished and ruined by a rigid exaction
of debts.
Verse 8. Open thine hand wide - That is, deal bountifully and liberally
with him.
Verse 9. Beware - Suppress the first risings of such uncharitableness. It
be sin - That is, it be charged upon thee as a sin.
Verse 10. Thine heart shall not be grieved - That is, thou shalt give, not
only with an open hand, but with a willing and chearful mind,
without which thy very charity is uncharitable, and not accepted
by God.
Verse 11. The poor shall never cease - God by his providence will so
order it, partly for the punishment of your disobedience, and
partly for the trial and exercise of your obedience to him and
charity to your brother.
Verse 12. If thy brother be sold - Either by himself, or his parents, or as
a criminal. Six years - To be computed from the beginning of his
servitude, which is every where limited to the space of six years.
Verse 15. The Lord redeemed thee - And brought thee out with riches,
which because they would not, God gave thee as a just
recompense for thy service; and therefore thou shalt follow his
example, and send out thy servant furnished with all convenient
provisions.
Verse 17. For ever - All the time of his life, or, at least, 'till the year of
jubilee. Likewise - That is, either dismiss her with plenty, or
engage her to perpetual servitude, in the same manner and by the
same rites.
Verse 19. All the firstling males thou shalt sanctify - Giving them to
God on the eighth day. And thou shalt do no work with the female
firstlings of the cow, nor shear those of the sheep. Even these
must be offered to God as peace-offerings, or used in a religious
feast.
Verse 20. Year by year - Namely, in the solemn feasts which returned
upon them every year.
Chapter 15:
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