The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 and following, and Leviticu…

For the poor shall never cease. —There is no contradiction between this verse and Deuteronomy 15:4 above. There will alwa…

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall …

For the poor shall never cease out of the land. The notion¹⁴⁷ of those is far-fetched, who suppose that there would always be p…

For the poor shall never cease out of the land
There would be always such objects to exercise their charity and bene…

This year of release symbolized the grace of the gospel, in which the acceptable year of the Lord is proclaimed, and through which we obtain the re…