Mill — stone — Used in their hand — mills. Under this, he understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing by those things alone he can be enabled both to subsist and to pay his debts. Life — His livelihood, the necessary support of his life.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 24:6
Deuteronomy 24:6
6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.