Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 24:17
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Deuteronomy24:17
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless , nor take a widows raiment to pledg.
Nor of the widow, which is to be supplied out of the last member; nor indeed of any other person, but he particularly mentions these, partly because men are most apt to wrong such helpless persons, and partly because God is pleased especially to charge himself, and so to charge others, with the care of those who have no other refuge. See Isa. 1. 23. Ier. 5. 28.
To wit, such an one as she hath daily and necessary use of, as being poor, as may appear by comparing this with ver. 12, 13. and with other places. But this concerns not rich persons, nor superfluous raiment.
Marginal references: Exod. 22. 21, 22. Prov. 22. [illegible: 1+ letters]2. Jer. 22. 3. Ezek. 22. 29.; Exod. 22. 26.
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