 | 1814 - 578 หน้า
...essentially necessary ; and finally, the mild and humane regulation of the Scriptures is accounted for : " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge ; for he takcth a man's life to pledge."—Deut. xxiv. 6.— No necessary of life might be taken in pawn.' To... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 หน้า
...rivers.' 1 ' The custom of daily grinding their corn for the family, shews the propriety of the law : " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge ;" because if he take either the upper or the nether millstone, he deprives him of his daily... | |
 | Moses Maimonides, James Townley - 1827 - 474 หน้า
....may be exercised towards the poor, and that no one may be destitute of the necessaries of life, as, " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." (Deut. xxiv, 6.) (48) The precepts which refer to Servitude and Slaves, have also a similar... | |
 | Moses Maimonides, James Townley - 1827 - 464 หน้า
...may be exercised towards the poor, and that no one may be destitute of the necessaries of life, as, " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." (Deut. xxiv, 6.) (48) The precepts which refer to Servitude and Slaves, have also a similar... | |
 | Moses Maimonides, James Townley - 1827 - 474 หน้า
...may be exercised towards the poor, and that no one may be destitute of the necessaries of life, as, " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." (Deut. xxiv, 6.) (48) The precepts which refer to Servitude and Slaves, have also a similar... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 หน้า
...people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. k DEUT. xxiv. 6: No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. UOHN, iii. 17: Whoso hath this world's good and seethhis brother have need, and shutteth up... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 หน้า
...neath. Lower; hence infernal, belonging to the lower regions : nethermost is the superlative ; lowest. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge ; for he taketh a man's life to pledge. Dent. xxiv. 6. Great is thy mercy towards me, and thou host delivered my soul from the netliermost... | |
 | James Wood (Wesleyan Minister.) - 1831 - 254 หน้า
...the instrument of victory, Eph. 6. 16. LIFE is put for the means of its preservation, Dent. 24.10. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge ; for he taketh a man's life to pledge ; that is, the instruments that are necessary for the preservation of life. Life is put for... | |
 | Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth - 1832 - 280 หน้า
...that it may be well 1 'Deut. ir. tG«n. ix. 6. M with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days."* " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge. When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.... | |
 | Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth - 1832 - 292 หน้า
...be well •Deut. if. 1Gen. iz. 6. {Lev. xix. M with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days." " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge. When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.... | |
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lawgiver treated pledges as customary contracts, and enacted liberal provisions to soften the hardships they occasioned. "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge."—Deut. xxiv. 
