--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse Deuteronomy 15:1. At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release — For an explanation of many things in this chapter, see the notes on Ex" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/deuteronomy/15" --- Verse [Deuteronomy 15:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/1). ***At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a**********release*** — For an explanation of many things in this chapter, see the notes on [Exodus 21](../../../kjv/exodus/21) and [Exodus 23](../../../kjv/exodus/23), and [Leviticus 25](../../../kjv/leviticus/25) Verse [Deuteronomy 15:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/4). ***There shall be no poor*** — That is, comparatively; see [Deuteronomy 15:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/11). Verse [Deuteronomy 15:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/8). ***Thou shalt open thine hand wide*** — Thy benevolence shall be in proportion to his distress and poverty, and thy ability. Thou shalt have no other rule to regulate thy charity by. Verse [Deuteronomy 15:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/9). ***Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked*** *heart*] לבבך בליעל *lebabecha beliyaal*, thy *belial heart*, that is, thy good-for-nothing or unprofitable heart; [Deuteronomy 13:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/13/13). ***And thine eye be evil*** — An evil eye signifies a covetous disposition. See the same form of expression used by our Lord in the same sense. [Matthew 6:23](../../../kjv/matthew/6/23). *If thine eye be evil*- If thou be a covetous person. *Evil eye* is by our Lord opposed to *single eye*, i. e., a person of a liberal, benevolent mind. Covetousness darkens the soul; liberality and benevolence enlighten it. ***And he cry unto the Lord against thee*** — What a consolation to the poor and the oppressed, that they have a sure friend in God, who will hear their cry and redress their grievances! Verse [Deuteronomy 15:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/11). ***For the poor shall never cease out of the land*** — To this passage our Lord appears to allude [Mark 14:7](../../../kjv/mark/14/7): *For ye have the poor with you always*. God leaves these in mercy among men to exercise the feelings of compassion, tenderness, mercy, &c. And without occasions afforded to exercise these, man would soon become a Stoic or a brute. Verse [Deuteronomy 15:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/13). ***Thou shalt not let him go away empty*** — Because during the time he served thee, he made no property for himself, having been always honest towards thee; and now when he leaves thee, he has nothing to begin the world with. Verse [Deuteronomy 15:14](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/14). ***Thou shalt furnish him - out of thy flock*** — Thou shalt give him some *cattle* to breed with; *out of thy floor*- some *corn* for *seed* and for *bread; and out of thy wine press*- an adequate provision of *wine* for present necessity. Verse [Deuteronomy 15:17](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/17). ***Thou shalt take an awl*** — [Exodus 21:6](../../../kjv/exodus/21/6). Verse [Deuteronomy 15:20](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/20). ***Thou shalt eat*****it -*****in the place which the Lord shall**********choose*** — Thus God in his mercy made their *duty* and *interest* go hand in hand. And in every case God acts thus with his creatures; well, therefore, might Satan ask, Doth Job serve God for naught? No! nor does God design that any man should. Verse [Deuteronomy 15:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/21). ***If there be*****any*****blemish*** — [Leviticus 22:20](../../../kjv/leviticus/22/20). 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