Lev_19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
Ver. 9. And when ye reap.] See what provision the Lord maketh for his poor, commanding that the fuller cups of the richer sort may overflow into their empty dishes: besides that
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, as Jerome calls it, that poor man’s tithe appointed in Deu_14:28-29; Deu_15:11. James V of Scotland was, for his charity, called the poor man’s king; much more may God.