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This sin, though directly committed against man only, is here emphatically said to be done against the Lord; not only in general, for so every sin against man is also against the Lord, whose image in man is thereby injured, and whose law, which obligeth us to love, and fidelity, and justice to other men, is thereby violated; but in a more special sense, because this was a violation of human society, whereof God is the author, and president, and defender; see Num_5:6; and because it was a secret sin, of which God alone was the witness and judge; see Act_5:4; and because God’s name was abused in it by perjury, Lev_6:3.
To keep, to wit, in trust. Or in fellowship, Heb. or in putting of the hand. Which may be either,
1. Another expression of the same thing immediately going before, which is very frequent in Scripture; and so the sense is, when one man puts any thing into another man’s hand to keep for him; and when he requires it, to restore it to him. Or,
2. A distinct branch, which seems more probable, and so it belongs to commerce or fellowship in trading, which is very usual, when one man puts any thing into another’s hand, not to keep it, as in the foregoing word or member, but to use and improve it for the common benefit of them both, in which cases of partnership it is easy for one to deceive the other, and therefore provision is here made against it. And this is called a putting of the hand, because such agreements and associations used to be confirmed by giving or joining their hands together, Jer_1:15 Gal_2:9. Compare Exo_23:1.
Taken away by violence, to wit, secretly; for he seems to speak here of such sins as could not be proved by witness.
Or hath deceived his neighbour, got any thing from him by calumny, or fraud, or circumvention; for so the word signifies.