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John Trapp on Isaiah 58:6

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Isaiah58:6

Ver. 6. Is not this the Fast that I have choſen] There is a three-fold Faſt; from meat, mirth, ſin: this laſt crowns both the former: and yet we ſay not (as the Papiſts falſely ſay we hold) that faſting is no more but a moral temperance, a faſting from ſin, a matter of policy.

To loſe the bands of wickedneſſe] i. e. Juramentum, literariam cautionem, vincula, carceres, ſervitutem: the unjuſt bonds and obligations of Uſurers and oppeſſors, whereby poor non-ſolvents were impriſoned, or imbondaged. Theſe are alſo here further called heavy burdens, and yokes: as elſewhere nets, Pſal. 10.9. that is, ſaith Chriſoſtom, bonds, debts, morgages.

And to let the oppreſſed go free] Heb. the bruiſed or broken, ſc. in their eſtates.

And that ye break every yoke] Cancel every unjuſt writing, ſay the Septuagint. They took twelve in the hundred in Nehemia's time: this was a yoke intolerable:Specul. Europi I pray you let us leave off this uſury ſaith he, chap. 5.10. At this day the Jews are in all places permitted to ſtrain up their uſury to eighteen in the hundred upon the Chriſtians: but then they are uſed, as the Friars, to ſuck from the meaneſt, and to be ſucked by the greateſt.

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