For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Ver. 11. For the poor.] See Trapp on " Mat 26:11 " Aged and impotent poor, whose misery moves compassion without an orator; called here our poor, as well as our brethren.