The Lord's Release
The Lord's Release (
- ”Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it”
The obligation only applied to the
The term "the LORD's release" is used in the
The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary considered the release to be temporary: "Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it — not by an absolute discharge of the debt, but by passing over that year without exacting payment. The relief was temporary and peculiar to that year during which there was a total suspension of agricultural labor."[3] Similarly, the seventeenth-century nonconformist Matthew Poole stated that the relief was temporary; you must "not absolutely and finally forgive it, but forbear it for that year".[4] However, to theologian John Gill, the release was to be permanent: "it rather seems to be a full release, so as the payment of them might not be demanded, neither this year nor afterwards"[5]
References
- ^ Deuteronomy 15:3
- ^ Barnes' Notes on Deuteronomy 15, accessed 5 December 2015
- ^ Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Deuteronomy 15, accessed 5 December 2015
- ^ Matthew Poole's Commentary on Deuteronomy 15, accessed 5 December 2015
- ^ Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible on Deuteronomy 15, accessed 5 December 2015