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2012-02-09
Exodus 22:26-27 has me a bit puzzled. From what I’ve gathered from various commentaries, this passage is saying that if you accept someone’s clothes as collateral for a loan, you have to give them back at the end of the day because people in the ancient Hebrew culture would use their long robes as their bedding. But this raises the question, if you’re supposed to give back, on that same day, what you took as collateral, regardless of whether they’ve paid you back, what’s the point of taking collateral in the first place?
If the bible were true, the second part of this passage would be awful, but since it’s not, I find it quite hilarious. God tells Moses that if a man cries out to him about his missing robes, God will surely hear him, because he is a gracious God—but he doesn’t say anything about actually doing something to help him! People who aren’t properly dressed to withstand the elements freeze to death every year, and you can be certain that plenty of them cried out to God as they neared their hypothermic deaths. And yet, they continue to die. So, what is the point of this promise?
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Oh the irony!
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