The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:19
Love the stranger. The precept has numerous applications— I. TO LITERAL STRANGERS . Persons from foreign countries, or from distant parts of our own country, settling in our midst. Why should these be treated so often as intruders, "incomers," persons to be jealously watched and suspected, instead of being taken by the hand and welcomed? II. TO THE UNFRIENDED AND HELPLESS . To all whose hearts are lonely, and their lives destitute of the cheer given by the love and... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:18-19
As the impartial and incorruptible Judge, God executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow , vindicates the right of the defenseless ( Psalms 68:6 ; Psalms 146:9 ); and as the God of the whole earth, he loveth the stranger , helpless, and it may be oppressed, and giveth him food and raiment. Following him, Israel, as his people, were to be benevolent to the stranger, inasmuch as they themselves had been strangers in Egypt, and knew by experience what it was to be a stranger (cf.... read more