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Redemption Motivates Compassion
Commentators agree that this verse provides the core motivation for the laws protecting the vulnerable. Israel's memory of their own slavery in Egypt was intended to produce genuine sympathy and a sense of obligation. Because God had mercifully redeemed them, they were commanded to show mercy and justice to others in distress, such as the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 24:17–22
18th Century
Theologian
Compare the marginal references. The motive assigned for these various acts of consideration is one and the same (Deuteronomy 24:18, 22…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 24:17–22
19th Century
Bishop
The stranger, the fatherless, and the widow — are the subject of all the laws in these verses. For the first two ([Reference Deute…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 24:18
17th Century
Pastor
But you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt ,
&c.] The remembrance of which may cause sympathy with pers…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 24:14–22
17th Century
Minister
It is not hard to prove that purity, piety, justice, mercy, fair conduct, kindness to the poor and destitute, consideration for them, and generosit…