 Professor Lawrence Schiffman of New York University read this regulation as an attempt to avoid violating prohibitions on charging interest to one's fellow Jew in and Apparently, the Qumran sect viewed prevailing methods of conducting business through credit as violating those laws.Philo read to instruct us to be prompt in our gratitude to God.Philo cited Cain as an example of a "self-loving man" who (in ) showed his gratitude to God too slowly.