FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- Defined

Phm 1:18

- MIGHT DEMAND

. Pledges

De 24:10,11; Pr 22:27

. Security of others

Pr 6:1; 22:26

. Mortgages on property

Ne 5:3

. Bills or promissory notes

Lu 16:6,7

- To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge

Ex 22:26,27; De 24:12,13; Eze 18:7,12

- PROHIBITED FROM

. Taking millstones in pledge

De 24:6

. Violently selecting pledges

De 24:10

. Exacting usury from brethren

Ex 22:25; Le 25:36,37

. Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year

De 15:2,3

- Might take interest from strangers

De 23:20

- Sometimes entirely remitted debts

Ne 5:10-12; Mt 18:27; Lu 7:42

- Often cruel in exacting debts

Ne 5:7-9; Job 24:3-9; Mt 18:28-30

- OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS

. By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant

Mt 18:25; Ex 21:2

. By selling the debtor's property

Mt 18:25

. By selling the debtor's family

2Ki 4:1; Job 24:9; Mt 18:25

. By imprisonment

Mt 5:25,26; 18:34

. From the sureties

Pr 11:15; 22:26,27

- Were often defrauded

1Sa 22:2; Lu 16:5-7

- ILLUSTRATIVE OF

. God's claim upon men

Mt 5:25,26; 18:23,25; Lu 7:41,47

. The demands of the law

Ga 5:3