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A System of Practical Charity
This command required landowners to intentionally leave behind not just overlooked produce, but specific types of fruit. Commentators describe leaving small clusters (called “infant” clusters) and not picking up individual fallen grapes. This was a practical, built-in system of provision, challenging a mindset of greed and total ownership over one's harvest.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 19:9–10
18th Century
Theologian
See Deuteronomy 24:19-21. “Grape” signifies fallen fruit of any kind; and “vineyard” a fruit garden of any kind. Compare Deuteronomy 23:24.
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Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 19:10
19th Century
Bishop
And you shall not glean your vineyard. —When harvesting the vine, care should be taken only to cut off the large clusters…
John Gill
On Leviticus 19:10
17th Century
Pastor
And you shall not glean your vineyard
Or cut off the little clusters which are, as Aben Ezra observes, like an infant…
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Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 19:1–37
17th Century
Minister
There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the Ten Commandments…