Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Ver. 45. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one, &c.] Omissions then are damnable sins. Ammonites and Moabites were bastardized and banished the beauty of holiness, the tabernacle of God, to the tenth generation, because they met not God's Israel with bread and water in the wilderness, Deuteronomy 23:3,4, Not to do justice is injustice; not to show mercy is cruelty. Where then will oppressors appear, that grind the faces of the poor, that quaff their tears, and make music of their shrieks? "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl," &c.,James 5:1,3. If not relieving of the poor damns men, what shall robbing do, but double damnation?