No slander of deaf; open bowels to poor; stranger/widow/orphan; pledge

Cyril: …tongue, and to decline speaking-down upon whatever, rather upon every human? For ‘Do not speak against one another, my brothers,’ says the disciple of the Savior. And now the law says: ‘You will not speak badly of a deaf person,’ wanting somehow, I think, through a riddle to mark that those truly fair in manner must necessarily depart from wrongdoing, even if being able readily to suffer should befall some; for a deaf or blind person is not free of weakness; for they are sick in the things from the body, and have been maimed in the senses—I mean sight and hearing. And the deaf would not hear the one wanting to speak against, nor would a blind person look down upon the one adding a scandal. So then it is nothing hard to escape notice, even if someone should wish to plot against them. But those whom one ought rather to pity, as already weakened from the misfortune from home, will also be caught wronging in addition—crushing with a scandal the blind person who does not know, and with insults the deaf person, sometimes even persuading him to smile as upon good reports, yet striking often even somehow into the most vital things themselves. So the evil-doing upon both would be hidden, if someone should choose, yet it would not pass out from a charge of hardness and of the too-great hate of one another.

Palladius: Truly.

Cyril: For that it also sets us as mutual-loving and pity-loving, even the ancient oracle, you would more easily learn hearing him say, at one time, that ‘Opening you will open your bowels to your brother who is in need among you’; and at another time again, ‘And a sojourner you will not mistreat, nor will you afflict him; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. Every widow and orphan you will not mistreat; and if with evil you should mistreat them, and having cried out they should cry down toward me, with hearing I will hear their voice, and I will be angered with wrath, and I will kill you with a sword, and your women will be widows, and your children orphans. And if you should lend silver to your poor brother beside you, you will not be pressing him, nor will you set interest upon him; and if you should take in pledge the garment of your neighbor, before sunsets you will give it back to him. For this is his only wrapping, this the garment of his shame; in what will he sleep? If then he should cry down toward me, I will hear him; for I am merciful.’ You hear how, setting forward the sweet lesson of mutual love, he threatened the anger? And all but also apologizes kindly to those about to undergo it, if they should not make the compassion unto brothers a matter of eagerness? ‘For I am merciful,’ he says—that is, being good by nature, and pitying as God, I will altogether receive the cry-down of the one who has suffered, and I will readily pity the tear of those weighted down by poverty. So then the speaking-down of the poor man is to be declined. For that it is fitting to be sharing, and to think love of the poor worthy of the most urgent eagerness, he has again put to shame in Deuteronomy, saying, ‘You will not deprive a wage of a poor man, or of one in need from your brothers, or from the sojourners