SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:11
Porque no faltarán menesterosos de en medio de la tierra; por eso yo te mando, diciendo: Abrirás tu mano a tu hermano, a tu pobre, y a tu menesteroso en tu tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 15:11
Verse 11. For the poor shall never cease out of the land] To this passage our Lord appears to allude Mark xiv. 7: For ye have the poor with you always. God leaves these in mercy among men to exercise the feelings of compassion, tenderness, mercy, &c. And without occasions afforded to exercise these, man would soon become a Stoic or a brute.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. For the poor shall never cease out of the land , etc.] There would be always such objects to exercise their charity and beneficence towards, ( John 12:8), which is no contradiction to ( Deuteronomy 15:4) for had they been obedient to the laws of God, they would have been so blessed that there would have been none; so the Targums; but he foresaw that they would not keep his commands, and so this would be the case, and which he foretells that they might expect it, and do their duty to them, as here directed: therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother ; not give sparingly, but largely, in proportion to the necessities of the poor, and according to the abilities of the lender or giver; and this must be done to a brother, one that is near in the bonds of consanguinity, and to him a man must give or lend first, as Aben Ezra observes, and then “to thy poor”; the poor of thy family, as the same writer: and to thy needy in the land ; that are in very distressed circumstances, though not related, and particularly such as are in the same place where a man dwells; for, as the same writer remarks, the poor of thy land are to be preferred to the poor of another place, Ver. 12 . And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee , etc.] By others, as by the sanhedrim for theft, for which a man might be sold, but not a woman, as Jarchi observes; but then a father might sell his daughter for an handmaid, if little and under age; and to such cases this law is supposed to refer; (see Exodus 21:2,7 22:3) though a man on account of poverty might sell himself: and serve thee six years ; as he was bound to do, if his master lived so long; if he died before the six years were out, he was obliged to serve his son, but not his daughter, nor his brother, nor his heirs, as the Jewish writers affirm f167 : then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee; that is, at the end of the sixth, and beginning of the seventh year; (see Exodus 21:2).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - This year of release typified the grace of the gospel, in which i proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord; and by which we obtain the release of our debts, that is, the pardon of our sins. The law i spiritual, and lays restraints upon the thoughts of the heart. We mistake, if we think thoughts are free from God's knowledge and check That is a wicked heart indeed, which raises evil thoughts from the goo law of God, as theirs did, who, because God had obliged them to the charity of forgiving, denied the charity of giving. Those who woul keep from the act of sin, must keep out of their minds the very though of sin. It is a dreadful thing to have the cry of the poor justl against us. Grudge not a kindness to thy brother; distrust not the providence of God. What thou doest, do freely, for God loves a cheerfu giver, 2Co 9:7.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 לא 3808 יחדל 2308 אביון 34 מקרב 7130 הארץ 776 על 5921 כן 3651 אנכי 595 מצוך 6680 לאמר 559 פתח 6605 תפתח 6605 את 853 ידך 3027 לאחיך 251 לעניך 6041 ולאבינך 34 בארצך׃ 776
