Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:8-9
The plague of leprosy - See on Leviticus 13 (note), and Leviticus 14 (note). read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:12
And if the man be poor, etc. - Did not this law preclude pledging entirely, especially in case of the abjectly poor? For who would take a pledge in the morning which he knew, if not redeemed, he must restore at night? However, he might resume his claim in the morning, and have the pledge daily returned, and thus keep up his property in it till the debt was discharged; see the note on Exodus 22:26 . The Jews in several cases did act contrary to this rule, and we find them cuttingly reproved... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:15
He is poor, and setteth his heart upon it - How exceedingly natural is this! The poor servant who seldom sees money, yet finds from his master's affluence that it procures all the conveniences and comforts of life, longs for the time when he shall receive his wages; should his pay be delayed after the time is expired, he may naturally be expected to cry unto God against him who withholds it. See most of these subjects treated at large on Exodus 22:21-27 ; (note). read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, etc. - This law is explained and illustrated in sufficient detail, Ezekiel 18. read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:8
Verse 8 8.Take heed in the plague of leprosy. I am aware how greatly interpreters differ from each other and how variously they twist whatever Moses has written about Leprosy. Some are too eagerly devoted to allegories; some think that God, as a prudent Legislator, merely gave a commandment of a sanitary, nature, in order that a contagious disease should not, spread among the people. This notion, however, is very. poor, and almost unmeaning; and is briefly. refuted by Moses himself, both where... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:10
Verse 10 10.When thou dost lend thy brother anything He provides against another iniquity in reclaiming a pledge, viz., that the creditor should ransack the house and furniture of his brother, in order to pick out the pledge at his pleasure. For, if this option were given to the avaricious rich, they would be satisfied with no moderation, but would seize upon all that was best, as if making an assault on the very entrails of the poor: in a word, they would ransack men’s houses, or at any rate,... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:14
Verse 14 14.Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant. This precept is akin to the foregoing. Moses pronounces that he who has hired a poor person for wages oppresses him unless he gives him immediate recompense for his labor; since the two admonitions, “thou shalt; not; oppress,” and “thou shalt give him his hire,” are to be read in connection with each other. Hence it follows, that if a hireling suffers from want because we do not pay him what he has earned, we are by our very delay alone... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 24:16
Verse 16 Here also God manifests how great is His regard for human life, so that blood should not be shed indiscriminately, when he forbids that children should be involved in the punishment of their parents. Nor was this Law by any means supererogatory, because on account of one man’s crime his whole race was often severely dealt with. It is not without cause, therefore, that God interposes for the protection of the innocent, and does not allow the punishment to travel further than where the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 24:6-13
Prohibited Pledges. Wealth is power; in every nation we need the safeguards of law to prevent such power from becoming tyranny. The poor are ever liable to become the prey of voracious avarice. I. A SEASONABLE LOAN IS A PRICELESS SERVICE , Men can render service one to another in a thousand different forms. Redundance of possession on the part of one may serviceably supply the deficiencies of another. One man has riches which he cannot profitably employ, another has trade for... read more
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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,.... By the civil magistrates, for sins committed by them of a capital nature, and which are worthy of death: neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers ; for sins committed by them that deserve it: every man shall be put to death for his own sin : which is but just and reasonable; see Ezekiel 18:4 ; which is no contradiction to Exodus 20:5 ; that respects what God himself would do, this what Israel, or the... read more