Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked… Thine "own bread it must be, and that especially whereof thou hast on the fast-day abridged thyself; for what the rich spare on such a day the poor should spend. Hereby, 1. Men's prayers shall speed the better (Acts 10:4). 2. They shall make God their debtor (Proverbs 19:17). 3. That is best and most pleasing alms to God that is given in Church assemblies; for, (1) it is an ordinance of God, and a Sabbath duty (1 Corinthians 16:1, 2); (2) Christ there sitteth, and seeth the gift and mind of every almsgiver (Luke 21:1, 2), setting it down in His book of remembrance (Malachi 3:16). (J. Trapp.) Parallel Verses KJV: Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? |
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