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Offender - 1: ὀφειλέτης (Strong's #3781 — Noun Masculine — opheiletes — of-i-let'-ace ) "a
Debtor," is translated "offenders" in
Luke 13:4 , RV (RV and AV marg. , "debtors;" AV, "sinners"). See
Debtor
Debtee - ) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; - correlative to
Debtor
Arnishee - ) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a
Debtor, such person holding property belonging to the
Debtor, or owing him money
Owe - A — 1: ὀφείλω (Strong's #3784 — — opheilo — of-i'-lo, of-i-leh'-o ) "to owe, to be a
Debtor" (in the Passive Voice, "to be owed, to be due"), is translated by the verb "to owe" in
Matthew 18:28 (twice);
Luke 7:41 ; 16:5,7 ;
Romans 13:8 ;
in 15:27, RV, "they (gentile converts) owe it" (AV, "it is their duty");
Philemon 1:18 . ...
B — 1: ὀφειλέτης (Strong's #3781 — Noun Masculine — opheiletes — of-i-let'-ace ) "a
Debtor" (akin to A, No. , "a
Debtor (of ten thousand talents). " See
Debtor
Debit - ) A debt; an entry on the
Debtor (Dr. ) To enter on the
Debtor (Dr
Debtor - ...
The
Debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (
Deuteronomy 24:10,11 ). ...
...
...
A surety was liable in the same way as the original
Debtor (
Proverbs 11:15 ; 17:18 )
Extent - ) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the
Debtor may be seized to secure payment. ) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a
Debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor
Creditor - ) One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; - correlative to
Debtor
Dun - ) To ask or beset, as a
Debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. ) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his
Debtor a dun
Debtor - , "one was brought, a
Debtor to him of ten thousand talents"). The slave could own property, and so become a "debtor" to his master, who might seize him for payment. ...
It is used metaphorically, (a) of a person who is under an obligation,
Romans 1:14 , of Paul, in the matter of preaching the Gospel; in
Romans 8:12 , of believers, to mortify the deeds of the body; in
Romans 15:27 , of gentile believers, to assist afflicted Jewish believers; in
Galatians 5:3 , of those who would be justified by circumcision, to do the whole Law: (b) of those who have not yet made amends to those whom they have injured,
Matthew 6:12 , "our
Debtors;" of some whose disaster was liable to be regarded as a due punishment,
Luke 13:4 (RV, "offenders;" AV, sinners;" marg. , "debtors"). 1), is found in
Luke 7:41 , of the two "debtors" mentioned in the Lord's parable addressed to Simon the Pharisee, and in
Luke 16:5 , of the "debtors" in the parable of the unrighteous steward. ,
Job 31:37 , "having taken nothing from the
Debtor;"
Proverbs 29:13 , "when the creditor and the
Debtor meet together. ...
Note: In
Matthew 23:16 opheilo, "to owe" (see DEBT), is translated "he is a
Debtor
Recoverable - ; obtainable from a
Debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable
Garnishee - In law, one in whose hands the property of an absconding or absent
Debtor is attached, who is warned or notified of the demand or suit, and who may appear and defend in the suit, in the place of the principal
Loan - The creditor must not enter the
Debtor's house to seize the pledge, but wait for the
Debtor to bring out an adequate security for payment. ...
The
Debtor could be held as a bondman only until the seventh year, i. The Roman or else the oriental law detaining the
Debtor in prison until he paid the uttermost farthing, and even giving him over to torturers, is alluded to in
Matthew 5:26;
Matthew 18:34
Abscond - ) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; - used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding
Debtor
Peon - ) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries,
Debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt
Adjudication - ) The decision upon the question whether the
Debtor is a bankrupt
Empower - ) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the
Debtor
Caption - In Scots law, a writ issued at the instance of a creditor, commanding an officer to take and imprison the
Debtor, till he pays the debt
Debts - ) The person of the
Debtor, who might be sold, along with his wife and children, if he had any. Where this warranty was given, the surety was treated with the same severity as if he had been the actual
Debtor; and if he could not pay, his very bed might be taken from under him,
Proverbs 22:27 . It is to be observed that the hand was given, not to the creditor, but to the
Debtor, in the creditor's presence. By this act the surety intimated that he became in a legal sense one with the
Debtor, and rendered himself liable to pay the debt. ) The creditor was not allowed to enter the house of the
Debtor to fetch the pledge, but was obliged to stand without the door, and wait till it was brought to him,
Deuteronomy 24:10-11 . Such a restoration was no loss to the creditor; for he had it in his power at last, by the aid of summary justice, to lay hold of the whole property of the
Debtor; and if he had none, of his person: and, in the event of non-payment, as before stated, to take him for a bond slave
Factorize - ) To attach (the effects of a
Debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish
Creditor - A person to whom a sum of money or other thing is due, by obligation, promise or in law properly, one who gives credit in commerce but in a general sense, one who has a just claim for money correlative to
Debtor. Creditors have better memories than
Debtors
Compo - ) Composition paid by a
Debtor
Fugitive - ; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive
Debtor
Assets - ) Effects of an insolvent
Debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts
Bill - ‘writing’), an acknowledgment of goods or money received written and signed by the
Debtor himself ( Baba bathra X
Indebted - 1: ὀφείλω (Strong's #3784 — — opheilo — of-i'-lo, of-i-leh'-o ) "to owe, to be a
Debtor," is translated "is indebted" in
Luke 11:4
Delegation - ) A kind of novation by which a
Debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him
Discuss - ) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal
Debtor before proceeding against the surety
Imprisonment - Appropriately, the confinement of a criminal or
Debtor within the walls of a prison, or in the custody of a sheriff, &c
Debenture Stock - By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the
Debtor company cannot redeem the stock, except by authority of an act of Parliament
Appropriation - ) The application of payment of money by a
Debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter
Extension - ) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a
Debtor further time to pay a debt
Confession - The acknowledgment of a debt by a
Debtor before a justice of the peace, &c
Pledge - ) The transfer of possession of personal property from a
Debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the
Debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn
Sinner - ...
Note: In
Luke 13:4 , AV, opheiletes, "a
Debtor," is translated "sinners" (RV, "offenders;" RV and AV marg. , "debtors")
Bill - " The bonds mentioned in rabbinical writings, were formal, signed by witnesses and the Sanhedrin of three, or informal, when only the
Debtor signed
Discharge - To free from claim or demand to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a
Debtor. The creditor discharged his
Debtor. Release from obligation, debt or penalty or the writing which is evidence of it an acquittance as, the
Debtor has a discharge
Debt - , "loan"), of the ten thousand talents
Debtor
Guilt - Guilt renders a person a
Debtor to the law, as it binds him to pay a penalty in money or suffering
Circumcision - " (
Romans 15:8) And by the ceasing of this Jewish rite, and the institution of Baptism to supersede it, it should seem, that it was understood by Christ's submitting to this act, he thereby became
Debtor to the whole law, and fulfilled it: and hence, all his redeemed not only are freed from it, but, in fact, they are prohibited the observance. "I testify (said Paul,) again, to every man that is circumcised, that he is a
Debtor to do the whole law
Execution - An execution issues from the clerk of a court, and is levied by a sheriff, his deputy or a constable, on the estate, goods or body of the
Debtor
Loan - The Jewish law did not forbid temporary bondage in the case of
Debtors, but it forbade a Hebrew
Debtor to be detained as a bondman longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee
Excuse - Every man has an excuse to offer for his neglect of duty the
Debtor makes excuses for delay of payment
Barbarian - Paul comprehends all mankind under the names of Greeks and barbarians: "I am a
Debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; to the wise and to the unwise," ...
Romans 1:14
Spiritualizing of the Parables - Paul; the
Debtor who owed 100 baths of oil, the Gentiles, ‘qui magna indigebant misericordia Dei’; the
Debtor who owed 100 cors of wheat, the Jewish people, ‘which had been nourished by the wheat of God’s commandments. Schleiermacher makes the rich man represent the Romans, the steward the tax-gatherers, the
Debtors the Jewish people
Debt, Debtor (2) - DEBT,
Debtor. ), the poor
Debtor had ample reason to rejoice. Often the more impoverished the
Debtor, the greater the exaction, as Horace expressly puts it (Sat. There are pictures of indebtedness in the parables of the Two
Debtors (
Luke 7:41-42), the Talents (
Matthew 25:14-30), and the Pounds (
Luke 19:11-27). Enough that in the time of Christ there was seizure of the
Debtor’s person, and the general treatment of him was cruel. The Sadducees, whose love of money was whetted by enjoyment of the Temple dues, were not the men to show mercy to a
Debtor, nor were the Pharisees behind them, more Puritanic in zeal, and rigidly enforcing the letter of their writs. ...
Debtor. ...
The story of the Two
Debtors (1618527165_72) shows the vital contrast of the matter in the persons of the Woman who was a Sinner—truly gracious in her doings, because full now of penitence and faith and love—and Simon, hide-bound and censorious like his class, with no disciplined sense of having been humbled like her before God. The latter, like the
Debtor of the trivial fifty pence, had little reaction of wholesome feeling in his mind; the former had manifestly much, like the man over-joyed to find himself relieved from a financial peril ten times greater
Principal - ) A chief obligor, promisor, or
Debtor, - as distinguished from a surety
Escape - Escapes are voluntary or involuntary voluntary, when an officer permits an offender or
Debtor to quit his custody, without warrant and involuntary, or negligent, when an arrested person quits the custody of the officer against his will, and is not pursued forthwith and retaken before the pursuer hath lost sight of him
Mortgage - A pledge of goods or chattels by a
Debtor to a creditor, as security for the debt
Term - ) A space of time granted to a
Debtor for discharging his obligation
Loans - ...
But the relation of
Debtor and creditor is so obviously adaptable to moral obligations, that under any social condition the use of this figure is to be expected. verb (ὀφείλω) is variously rendered in the Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 ‘owed,’ ‘owest,’ ‘that was due’ (
Matthew 18:28;
Matthew 18:30;
Matthew 18:34, Luke 7:41;
Luke 16:5;
Luke 16:7 of financial obligation); ‘debtor’ (
Matthew 23:16;
Matthew 23:18 ), ‘duty’ (
Luke 17:10), ‘ought’ (
John 13:14;
John 19:7), ‘indebted’ (
Luke 11:4; all of moral obligation); and the noun (ὀφειλέτης) is translated ‘owed’ (
Matthew 18:24 of money debt), ‘debtors’ (
Matthew 6:12 of moral debts), ‘offenders’ (
Luke 13:4 of guilt before God). Because then, in the Gospel narratives,
Debtors and creditors, borrowers and lenders figure largely, we are not able to say that the teaching of Jesus either supports or condemns modern commercial arrangements
Loose - 1, denotes (a) "to set free, release," translated "loosed" in
Luke 13:12 , of deliverance from an infirmity; in
Matthew 18:27 , AV, "loosed" (RV, "released"), of a
Debtor; (b) "to let go, dismiss," e
Pay - To discharge a debt to deliver to a creditor the value of the debt, either in money or goods, to his acceptance or satisfaction, by which the obligation of the
Debtor is discharged
Impute - The original
Debtor, and the Surety, who pays for that
Debtor, cannot both have the debt at the same time charged, upon them
Lending - ...
Repayment of loans...
Though not allowed to take interest from the poor, creditors could, if they wished, ask for temporary possession of some article belonging to a
Debtor, as a guarantee that the
Debtor would repay the loan. Creditors could give employment to
Debtors who wished to repay debts by working for them, but he could not make the
Debtors their permanent slaves (
Leviticus 25:39-40). ...
Disorders arose when creditors took advantage of
Debtors, and
Debtors took advantage of friends whom they had asked to guarantee them. Also,
Debtors could get themselves so far into debt that guarantors could be ruined. Wise advisers therefore warned guarantors against making rash promises, and even suggested they withdraw their guarantees from dishonest
Debtors before it was too late (
Proverbs 6:1-5;
Proverbs 11:15;
Proverbs 17:18;
Proverbs 22:26). ...
Although dishonest
Debtors were a problem, dishonest creditors were a much greater problem. They seized
Debtors’ food and clothing (
Amos 2:6-8;
Amos 5:11;
Amos 8:6), farm animals (
Job 24:3), and houses and land (
Micah 2:2;
Micah 2:9). Some even took members of the
Debtors’ families and made them slaves (
2 Kings 4:1;
Nehemiah 5:1-5). They were to consider themselves one big family, where no one would be driven into poverty or refused a loan in a time of need, even if the year for releasing
Debtors was approaching. (Concerning the year for releasing
Debtors see SABBATICAL YEAR. )...
As with the law concerning interest on loans, the law concerning release from debt did not apply to cases involving foreign
Debtors. ...
The generosity of creditors in helping the needy and forgiving
Debtors is frequently used in the New Testament to picture truly godly attitudes. By contrast, the bondage that binds
Debtors to their creditors is an illustration of that bondage to the old nature from which Christians have been freed by Christ (
Romans 8:12-13)
Barbarian - (3) In the statement (
Romans 1:14), ‘I am a
Debtor both to Greeks and to barbarian,’ St Paul uses the common conventional division of mankind; and, like Philo and Josephus, classes the Jews among the Barbarians
Joint - ) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint
Debtor, etc
Banking - Other banking terms and practices in the Bible include coins, exchangers, increase or interest, extortion, creditor, and
Debtor
Fail - the
Debtor failed to fulfil his promise
Banking - Other banking terms and practices in the Bible include coins, exchangers, increase or interest, extortion, creditor, and
Debtor
Grace - ...
Days in grace, in commerce, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the
Debtor or payor to make payment in
Debt - ]'>[4] ) is not clear, but the cessation of agriculture would obviously lead to serious financial difficulties, and
Debtors might reasonably look for some relief. The other codes have no parallel, except where the debt may have led to the bondage of the
Debtor’s person.
Jeremiah 15:10 shows that the relation between
Debtor and creditor was proverbially an unpleasant one
Bond - Its technical use is for ‘a note of hand, a bond or obligation, as having the “sign manual” of the
Debtor or contractor’ (Lightfoot, Col
Discharge - ; acquittance; as, the discharge of a
Debtor
Poor - , thirst after prostrating the poor by oppression, so as to lay their heads in the dust; or less simply (Pusey) "grudge to the poor
Debtor the dust which as a mourner he strewed on his head" (
2 Samuel 1:2;
Job 2:12)
Debt, Debtor - The
Debtor could have another to write for him if unable to write himself (cf. Paul here is the moral obligation of the
Debtor to pay his debt
Matthew - He could not help squeezing the last drop of blood out of this and that helpless
Debtor. The debt was due, it was too long overdue, and it must be paid, if both the
Debtor and his children have to be sold in the slave-market to pay the debt
Saint - Regarded as a criminal on trial, he is ‘justified’ or ‘acquitted’ (yet as an act of grace, and not with a verdict of ‘not guilty,’
Romans 5:8); as an enemy he is ‘reconciled’; as a
Debtor he is ‘forgiven’; as a slave he is either ‘redeemed’ or admitted to the status of ‘son’ in the household of God (cf
Circumcision - The first is that strong one which is expressed in
Galatians 5:2-4 , "Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; for I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a
Debtor to do the whole law. —"I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a
Debtor to do the whole law; whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace
Slave, Slavery (2) - Work was accepted and required as a substitute for repayment, but as far as possible the personal freedom of the
Debtor was respected
Athens - Paul spoke the language of Hellas, and acknowledged himself a
Debtor to the Hellenes (
Romans 1:14), yet Athens does not seem to have exercised any fascination over him
Pity - The ‘tender mercy of our God’ in the Benedictus (
Luke 1:78) is the thought illustrated in the parable of the Good Samaritan, who was ‘moved with compassion’ (ἐσπλαγχνίσθη) at the sight of the wounded man (
Luke 10:33); as in that of the king who forgave the
Debtor, being ‘moved with compassion’ (σπλαγχνισθείς,
Matthew 18:27); and even more strikingly so in the description of the father of the Prodigal, who, when he saw his son returning, ἐσπλαγχνίσθη καὶ δραμὼν ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ (
Luke 15:20)
Slave, Slavery - ...
Whether the creditor had the right to force the
Debtor into slavery against his will is not clear
Law - ...
Notes: (1) In
Galatians 5:3 , the statement that to receive circumcision constitutes a man a
Debtor to do "the whole Law," views the "Law" as made up of separate commands, each essential to the whole, and predicates the unity of the "Law;" in
Galatians 5:14 , the statement that "the whole law" is fulfilled in the one commandment concerning love, views the separate commandments as combined to make a complete "law
Proselyte - Paul’s words, ‘by receiving circumcision, became a
Debtor to do the whole law’ (
Galatians 5:3)-was always admitted with fervour
Paul as a Preacher - Paul is henceforth
Debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise
Simeon - By the parable of the
Debtor forgiven 500 pence loving the creditor more than the one forgiven only 50, Christ showed that her warm and demonstrative love flowed from consciousness of forgiveness, his want of love from his fancy that he needed but little God's forgiveness
Docetism - Marcion, on the contrary, was quite willing to acknowledge the proof of our Lord's love exhibited in His sufferings and death, but it was repulsive to him to own His human birth, which according to his view would have made our Lord the
Debtor and the subject of the Creator of the world
Gospel - The first
Debtor in
Matthew 18:23-35 has earned nothing but the right to be sold into slavery; instead the king cancels his enormous debt
Greece - , made not only the Hellas of later times but all the world their
Debtor
the Unmerciful Servant - Well, how do you do when you come to the fifth petition, which is this-And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
Debtors? Dr. When the fellow-servants of this unmerciful servant saw him so forget his own ten thousand talents as to take his hundred-pence
Debtor by the throat and cast him into prison, they were both sorry and angry, and went and told their Lord what had taken place
Lord (2) - It was used by a servant to a master, by a
Debtor to a creditor, and by a layman to a learned man
Peter - Judas lies a cast-out suicide in Aceldama! 'O the depths of the Divine mercy to me! That I who sinned with Judas; that I who had made my bed in hell beside Judas; should be held in this honour, and should be ministering to the holy brethren! O to grace how great a
Debtor!' And again, just think what all must have been in Peter's mind as he stood up in Solomon's porch to preach the Pentecost sermon
Solomon - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before Thee that I am
Debtor to Thee for the gracious talent of Thy gifts and graces, winch I have neither put into a napkin nor put it as I ought to exchangers, but have mis-spent it in things for which I was least fit, so as I may truly say my soul hath been a stranger in the house of my pilgrimage
Trial-at-Law - Execution of judgment was left to the winner; but strong judicial pressure was brought to bear on a recalcitrant
Debtor
Forgiveness (2) - For (1) the whole scope of the parable of the two
Debtors shows that forgiveness precedes love; (2) the latter part of
Luke 7:47 enforces the same lesson; and so (3) does the absolution pronounced in
Luke 7:48. The principle is not to be understood as a kind of Divine lex talionis, as in the parable of the Unmerciful
Debtor (
Matthew 18:35)—that a man does not deserve mercy himself, if he will not show it to others, though this is true and appeals to a natural sense of justice
Originality - The verdict in favour of Buddhism in this third group of parallels strengthens the probability that in the second group also it is Christianity that is the
Debtor