Zechariah 7:10 (WEB)
Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And oppress not the widow, and the orphan, and the proselyte, and the poor; and let none imagine evil against your brother in his heart.”” — editor's note: Zech. vii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“Wash you, make you clean, put away evil from your hearts, learn to do well, seek judgment, protect the oppressed, judge the fatherless (pupillo), plead for the widow; and come, let us reason together, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. vii. 3; Zech. vii. 9, 10, Zech. viii. 17; Isa. i. 17–19.
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Tertullian
“When by Zechariah He commanded, “Let none of you imagine evil against his brother,” He did not expressly include his neighbour; but then in another passage He says, “Let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour.”” — editor's note: Zech. vii. 10.
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