but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.
He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
“And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.
Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do.