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That Sure Tastes Good!

Who satisfies your mouth with good things… Psalm 103:5a Psalm 37: 3 declares: “Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” There, the

From Redemption to Royalty

In the first half of Psalm 103:4, God redeems us. Then, with only the separation of the pause of a comma, in the second half of the same verse, He crowns us. In other words,

Put Away Childish Things

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11) What

“The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow,” “what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was” “to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner” “(Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev. 25:35-38). At the end of seven” “years all debts were remitted. Of a foreigner the loan might,” “however, be exacted. At a later period of the Hebrew” “commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice of exacting” “usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial” “sense, grew up. Yet the exaction of it from a Hebrew was” “regarded as discreditable (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 6:1, 4; 11:15; 17:18;” 20:16; 27:13; Jer. 15:10). “Limitations are prescribed by the law to the taking of a pledge from the borrower. The outer garment in which a man slept at “night, if taken in pledge, was to be returned before sunset (Ex.” “22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13). A widow’s garment (Deut. 24:17) and” a millstone (6) could not be taken. A creditor could not enter “the house to reclaim a pledge, but must remain outside till the” “borrower brought it (10, 11). The Hebrew debtor could not be” “retained in bondage longer than the seventh year, or at farthest” “the year of jubilee (Ex. 21:2; Lev. 25:39, 42), but foreign” “sojourners were to be “bondmen for ever” (Lev. 25:44-54).”

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