Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Exodus 22:28. Thou shalt not revile the gods. These four passages confirm what I have said, that in the: Fifth Commandment are comprised, by synecdoche all superiors in authority.: For it was not the design of God to add to the Two Tables, as if something better and more perfect had afterwards come into His mind; which it is sinful to suppose.
Do not charge interest to the poor who borrow by necessity; but show mercy to those you might exploit, and share loss as well as profit with them. Do not strip a poor man of his bedclothes for a debt, but return them by nightfall so he has something to lie on. Those who sleep warm ought to consider the hard lodgings of the poor and refuse to make their suffering worse.
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Commenting on Exodus 22:25-31
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep,.... That is, with the firstborn, which were to be set apart to the Lord; and so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,"the firstborn of thine oxen, and of thy sheep;''for having spoken of the firstborn of men, the Scripture proceeds to speak of the firstborn of cattle, great and small, the separation of which...