That we may buy - Or, indignantly, “To buy the poor!” literally, “the afflicted,” those in “low” estate. First, by dishonesty and oppression…

On this perverse straining of the Law, compare to Amos 2:6. Their money-making propensity was carried to such unscrupulous lengths, that they even …

Here he still speaks of the avarice of the rich, who in times of scarcity kept the poor in subjection to themselves and reduced them to slavery. He…

That we may buy the poor for silver
Thus making them pay dear for their provisions, and using them in this fraudulen…

The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppre ion, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the …