But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred.

“"So that all, etc." Thus the people of Israel, through the teachers of the divine word, ministered alms not only to the untaught hearers of their own nation, but also to the nations coming over to Judaism. For whatever of good it had by nature, which the captor enemy had not taken away, this it displayed to its own as an example of virtue, and it offered a portion of saving knowledge, as it were the tithe of its substance, to strangers, that is, to the Gentiles.”