Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvi Pg 32
The author’s reading of Deut. xv. 4.
—thee meaning the creditor to whom it was owing that the man was not indigent. But more than this. To one who does not ask, He bids a gift to be given. “Let there be, not,” He says, “a poor man in thine hand;” in other words, see that there be not, so far as thy will can prevent;4065 4065 Cura ultro ne sit.
by which command, too, He all the more strongly by inference requires4066 4066 Præjudicat.
men to give to him that asks, as in the following words also: “If there be among you a poor man of thy brethren, thou shalt not turn away thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother. But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him as much as he wanteth.”4067 4067
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 15
VERSE (4) - De 14:29; 28:1-8,11 Pr 11:24,25; 14:21; 28:27 Isa 58:10,11
