Reference: Debt
Easton
The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (De 15:7; Ps 37:26; Mt 5:42); but it forbade the exaction of interest except from foreigners. Usury was strongly condemned (Pr 28:8; Eze 18:8,13,17; 22:12; Ps 15:5). On the Sabbatical year all pecuniary obligations were cancelled (De 15:1-11). These regulations prevented the accumulation of debt.
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give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
Hastings
DEBT
1. In OT.
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and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
In this respect the gospel-kingdom may be represented by that of a temporal prince, who had a mind to call his servants to account.
In this respect the gospel-kingdom may be represented by that of a temporal prince, who had a mind to call his servants to account.
should not you then have lodged my money at the banker's, and so at my return I should have received my own with interest.
if you lend with the expectation of gaining by it, where's the obligation? for the heathen lend to one another, for the prospect of an equivalent. but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches.
A certain creditor had two debtors, the one owed five hundred denarys, and the other fifty.
so he sent for every one of his master's debtors in private, he ask'd the first, how much do you owe my master?
" why then did you not lodge my money in the bank, that on my return I might have drawn it out with interest?
and cancell'd the obligation of the ceremonial law, which was disadvantageous to us, removing that which divided us, and nailing it to the cross.