Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 7:10

10 And oppress not the widow , nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor, and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart .

Do not first misreport their persons, their actions, and their cases, and on that pretence do them wrong, and oppress them: 'tis double oppression, to oppress by false information, and then condemn, the first is an oppression of Righteousness, the next is oppression of the Righteous.

A Catalogue of helpless ones who are under the peculiar tutelage of God, Exod. 22.21, 22. Deut. 10.18. and 14.29. and 24.17, 19. Isa. 1.17, 23. &c.

Neither think ill of, or wish ill to, nor plot evil against, one another.

Marginal references: Jer. 5.28.; chap. 8.17.