 | Thomas Campbell Finlayson - 1880 - 168 หน้า
...advantage by some modern Christians. The limitations of pawnbroking, for example, were very significant. " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." And again: "If the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: in any case thou shalt... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - 1881 - 264 หน้า
...according to God's law, cannot be enforced by a good man. For instance, and it covers many cases, " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." Debts should be paid ; over-exemption by law puts a premium on dishonesty ; but the rich man,... | |
 | Atticus Greene Haygood - 1881 - 270 หน้า
...according to God's law, cannot be enforced by a good man. For instance, and it covers many cases, " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge." Debts should be paid ; over-exemption by law puts a premium on dishonesty; but the rich man,... | |
 | 1881 - 378 หน้า
...gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in amortar." [Num. xi. 8.] In the law it is ordained, "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh life to pledge;" that is, he who lends money must be humane to the borrower, and must not make the... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1883 - 538 หน้า
...business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. < 6 'No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge : for he taketh a man's life to pledge. < 7 > If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1883 - 358 หน้า
...is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." * Certain property was sacred : " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge ; for he taketh a man's life." f If, by a series of calamities, a man had become impoverished, his more prosperous neighbors were... | |
 | Francis Turner - 1883 - 464 หน้า
...sleep ?" With similar tenderness for the pawnor's poverty, it is subsequently (b) provided, " No mail shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge." The intending pawnee is, in the same spirit, forbidden to enter his brother's house in quest... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1884 - 312 หน้า
...that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning."* Certain property was sacred : " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life."t If by a series of calamities a man had become impoverished, his more prosperous neighbours... | |
 | John Adam Cross - 1885 - 290 หน้า
...may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 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.... | |
 | Charles Henry Waller - 1885 - 254 หน้า
...business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. {6 'No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge : for he taketh a man's life to pledge. ff) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of acb.30.7. 1 H>h., not any thing •A... | |
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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. 
