if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.
Here is, I. A law for the relief of poor debtors, such (we may suppose) as were insolvent. Every seventh year was a year of release, in which the ground rested from being tilled and servants were discharged from their services; and, among other acts of grace, this was one, that those who had borrowed money, and had not been able to pay it before...
Commenting on Deuteronomy 15:1-11
In his word, and by his prophets; this being the case, there would be no more poor among them, or however they would be so blessed of God, that they would be capable of releasing the debts of the poor, without hurting themselves and their families: to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day; a phrase often used to put...
Deu 15:5-6 This blessing would not fail, if the Israelites would only hearken to the voice of the Lord; “for Jehovah blesseth thee” (by the perfect בּרכך, the blessing is represented not as a possible and future one only, but as one already bestowed according to the counsel of God, and, so far as the commencement was concerned, already fulfilled), “as He hath spoken” (see at Deu 1:11).
Commenting on Deuteronomy 15:5-6