Deuteronomy 15:4-11 Save when there shall be no poor among you… Consider — I. That poverty is a real evil which, without any impeachment of the goodness or wisdom of providence, the constitution of the world actually admits. II. That providential appointment of this evil in subservience to the general good, brings a particular obligation upon men in civilised society to concur for the immediate extinction of the evil wherever it appears. (Bp. Horsley.) Parallel Verses KJV: Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: |
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