Ezekiel 18:16 (WEB)
hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
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“For in the passage of Ezekiel quoted above He says, “And thou shalt restore the pledge of the loan”—to him, certainly, who is incapable of repayment, because, as a matter of course, He would not anyhow prescribe the restoration of a pledge to one who was solvent.” — editor's note: Pignus reddes dati (i.e., fenoris) is his reading of a clause in Ezek. xviii. 16.
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