Chapter 23:
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Deuteronomy 23
Concise Complete
Who are shut out from the congregation. (1-8)
Cleanliness enjoined. (15-25) Of fugitive servants, Usury, and other precepts.
(9-14)
Verses 1-8 We
ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our
children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no crimes of our
forefathers, no difference of nation, shuts us out under the Christian
dispensation. But an unsound heart will deprive us of blessings; and a bad
example, or an unsuitable marriage, may shut our children from them.
Verses 9-14
The camp of the Lord must have nothing offensive in it. If there must be this
care taken to preserve the body clean, much more should we be careful to keep
the mind pure.
Verses
15-25 It is honourable to shelter and protect the weak, provided they are
not wicked. Proselytes and converts to the truth, should be treated with
particular tenderness, that they may have no temptation to return to the world.
We cannot honour God with our substance, unless it be honestly and honourably
come by. It must not only be considered what we give, but how we got it. Where
the borrower gets, or hopes to get, it is just that the lender should share the
gain; but to him that borrows for necessary food, pity must be showed. That
which is gone out of thy lips, as a solemn and deliberate vow, must not be
recalled, but thou shalt keep and perform it punctually and fully. They were
allowed to pluck and eat of the corn or grapes that grew by the road side; only
they must not carry any away. This law intimated what great plenty of corn and
wine they should have in Canaan. It provided for the support of poor travellers,
and teaches us to be kind to such, teaches us to be ready to distribute, and not
to think every thing lost that is given away. Yet it forbids us to abuse the
kindness of friends, or to take advantage of what is allowed. Faithfulness to
their engagements should mark the people of God; and they should never encroach
upon others.
Chapter 23:
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