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申命记 15

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1 每逢年末一年,你要施行豁免。

2 豁免的定例乃是这样:凡债要把所借给邻舍的豁免了;不可向邻舍和弟兄追讨,因为耶和华的豁免年已经宣告了。

3 若借给外邦人,你可以向他追讨;但借给你弟兄,无论是甚麽,你要松豁免了。

4 你若留意听从耶和华─你的话,谨守遵行我今日所吩咐你这一切的命令,就必在你们中间没有穷人了(在耶和华─你所赐你为业的上,耶和华必大大赐福与你。)

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6 因为耶和华─你的必照他所应许你的赐福与你。你必许多国民,却不至向他们贷;你必管辖许多国民,他们却不能管辖你。

7 “在耶和华所赐你的上,无论那座城里,

8 总要向他松开,照他所缺乏给他,补他的不足。

9 你要谨慎,不可心里起恶念,第七年的豁免年快到了,你便恶眼看你穷乏的弟兄,甚麽都不他,以致他因你求告耶和华,罪便归於你了。

10 你总要他,他的时候心里不可愁烦;因耶和华─你的必在你这一切所行的,并你里所办的事上,赐福与你。

11 原来那上的穷人永不断绝;所以我吩咐你说:总要向你上困苦穷乏的弟兄松开

12 你弟兄中,若有一个希伯来男人或希伯来女人被给你,服事你年,到第七年就要任他自由出去。

13 你任他自由的时候,不可使他空手而去,

14 要从你羊群禾场、酒醡之中,多多的他,耶和华你的怎样赐福与你,你也要照样他。

15 要记念你在埃及作过奴仆,耶和华─你的将你救赎;因此,我今日吩咐你这件事。

16 他若对你:我不愿意离开你,是因他你和你的家,且因在你那里很好,

17 你就要拿锥子将他的耳朵在上刺透,他便永为你的奴仆了。你待婢女也要这样。

18 你任他自由的时候,不可以为难事,因他服事你年,较比雇工的工价多加一倍了。耶和华─你的就必在你所做的一切事上赐福与你。

19 牛群羊群中头生的,凡是公的,都要分别为,归耶和华─你的牛群中头生的,不可用他耕地;羊群中头生的,不可剪毛。

20 这头生的,你和你的家属,每年要在耶和华所选择的地方,在耶和华─你面前

21 这头生的若有甚麽残疾,就如瘸腿的、瞎眼的,无论有甚麽恶残疾,都不可献给耶和华─你的

22 可以在你城里;洁净人与不洁净人都可以,就如羚羊与鹿一般。

23 只是不可他的血;要倒在上,如同倒一样。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 209

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209. 'Wretched and poor.' This symbolically means that they have no truths or goods.

Wretched and poor people mean, in the spiritual sense of the Word, people who lack concepts of truth and good, for they are spiritually wretched and poor. They are also meant by the people in the following passages:

I am wretched and poor, O Lord; be mindful of me. (Psalms 40:18) [NCBSP: Psalms 40:17], cf. Psalms 70:5)

Incline Your ear, O Jehovah, and answer me, for I am wretched and poor. (Psalms 86:1)

The impious bare the sword and bend their bow, to cast down the wretched and poor... (Psalms 37:14)

(The impious man) persecuted the wretched and poor man, even to slay the downcast in heart. (Psalms 109:16)

(God) will judge the wretched of the people; He will save the children of the poor... He will deliver the poor man when he cries, and the wretched man... (Psalms 72:4, 12-13)

Jehovah... delivers the wretched man from one who is too strong for him, and the poor man... from those who plunder him. (Psalms 35:10)

(The impious man) devises wicked plans to destroy the wretched with lying words, even when the poor man speaks justly. (Isaiah 37:7)

The wretched shall have their joy in Jehovah, and the poor of mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 29:19)

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)

See also elsewhere, as Isaiah 10:2; Jeremiah 22:16; Ezekiel 16:49; 18:12; 22:29; Amos 8:4; Psalms 9:18; 69:32-33; 74:21; 109:22; 140:12; Deuteronomy 15:11; 24:14; Luke 14:13, 21, 23.

The wretched and poor mean chiefly people who lack concepts of truth and goodness and yet desire them, since the rich mean people who possess concepts of truth and goodness (no. 206).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.