 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6 claimed before htm, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth man'» life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel,... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - 1837 - 660 pages
...gathered itt and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar. (Num. xi. 8.) In the law it is ordained, No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh life to pledge; that is, he who lends money must be humane to the borrower, and must not make the poor... | |
 | Stephen Rensselaer Smith - 1839 - 380 pages
...also made for preventing the acceptance of certain indispensable articles of common use. Thus — " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone...to pledge ; for he taketh a man's life to pledge." Are these benevolent arrangements, the indications of total apathy to the welfare of the distressed... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 738 pages
...of daily grinding their corn for the family, shows the propriety of the law : " No man .shall lake e it unto a young man ; and he hasted to dress it. 8. And he took butter and milk ;" because if he take cither the upper or the nether millstone, he deprives him of his dailv provision,... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1841 - 460 pages
...after and confirmation of what is false. AR 394, 484. MILLSTONE sig. truth serving to faith. AC 9755. "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone...to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge," (Deut. xxiv. 6,) sig. that they should not deprive any one of goods and trufhs. Ap. Ex. 182. Millstone... | |
 | Alexander Smith Paterson - 1841 - 486 pages
...That we are to avoid every thing which would tend to take away the life of another. Deut. xxiv. 6.—" No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone...to pledge ; for he taketh a man's life to pledge." EXPLANATION. 1. We are forbidden to murder our own souls,—which is done, (1.) By neglecting and despising... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1842 - 376 pages
...grind morning and evening just as much as serves for daily use. Hence the necessity for the law, " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge."1 We learned also that this country is not now what it once was, " a land wherein thou shalt... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall h cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6 Tf No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone...to pledge : for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 Tf If ia man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...(Jerem. 25. 10,11.) The custom of daily grinding corn for the family, shows the propriety of the law : " No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone...to pledge, for he taketh a man's life to pledge;" because if he take either the upper or the nether millstone, he deprives him oi his daily provision,... | |
 | Z. A. Davis - 1843 - 408 pages
...to pledge ; thou shah deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down." Deuteronomy, xxiv. 6. — " No man shall take the nether or the upper mill-stone...to pledge : for he taketh a man's life to pledge." The following song is sung previous to closing — AIR — " God save great Washington." Mark Masters,... | |
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge : for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 
