From: enometh@meer.net   
      
   The Commandment (Lev 19:33-34)   
      
   	"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not   
   	do him wrong. The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be   
   	unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as   
   	thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt”   
   	(Lev. 19:33-34, JPS1917)"   
      
   The Curse for Disobedience to the Divine Commandment (Deut.28:43-44)   
      
   	"The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above   
   	thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and   
   	lower. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he   
   	shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail"   
   	(Deut. 28:43-44)."   
      
      
   Was this fulfilled in post-exilic times by phoenician bankers lending to   
   israel?   
      
   	"They might say that this passage refers to Phoenician   
   	money-lenders who bought up the agricultural produce at their   
   	own price, because they had advanced money o the Judean farmers   
   	who had to take any price the moneylenders were willing to   
   	give. In their own country, they were helpless against the sharp   
   	practices of the Phoenician merchants."   
      
   	-- Jacob Hoschander, The Priests & Prophets, JTS, NYC 1937   
   		pp. 222) pdf/page 246/392,   
   		https://archive.org/details/priestsprophets00hosc   
      
      
   No. because this, Deut.28:43-44 would mean --   
      
   	"This would mean actual subjection of Israel to the strangers in   
   	their midst. Seeing, however, that Israel did not suffer such a   
   	fate, but financially was subject to the foreign money-lenders,   
   	this curse was interpreted historically"   
      
   Now Hoschander makes his argument to show that the text is from Mosaic   
   times and not the work of post-exilic Dueteronomists, but also indicates   
   the prophecy was not fulfilled in the Kings & Chronicles.   
      
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