Deuteronomy 25
DOYLYDeuteronomy 25:5
- — A Syrian ready to perish was my father,] Jacob is called “a Syrian,” as being servant to Laban, who was a Syrian, Gen. xxv. 20; consequently Jacob’s mother was so, as were both his wives, and all his children, who were born there, except Benjamin. Or else
Deuteronomy 25:13
- Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,] Besides what every body calls theft, there are many practices, which amount indirectly to much the same thing, however disguised in the world under gentler names. Thus, in the way of trade and business; if the seller puts off any thing for better than it is, by false assertions or deceitful arts: if he takes advantage of the buyer’s ignorance, or particular necessities, or good opinion of him, to insist on a larger price for it than the current value: or if he gives less in quantity than he professes, or is understood to give: the frequency of some of these cases cannot alter the nature of any of them. No one can be ignorant that they are wrong, but such as are wilfully or very carelessly ignorant: and the declaration of Scripture against the last of them is extended, in the same place, to every one of the rest. “For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,