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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To him who asks, give: from him who would borrow, turn not away.
Hastings
DEBT
1. In OT.
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and forgive us our shortcomings, as we also have forgiven those who have failed in their duty towards us;
"For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts with his servants.
"For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts with his servants.
Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount. Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
"There were once two men in debt to one money-lender," said Jesus; "one owed him five hundred shillings and the other fifty.
"So he called all his master's debtors, one by one, and asked the first, 'How much are you in debt to my master?'
why then did you not put my money into a bank, that when I came I might have received it back with interest?
The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.