BEGGAR
In the OT, earthly prosperity was a sign of blessing.
The psalmist says that in all his life he had not seen the upright abandoned, nor his descendants begging bread (Ps. 37:25), while of the wicked, pointing to Judas, it is said: “Let your children go wanderings and beg.” » (Ps. 109:10).
Instead, by introducing power and salvation, Jehovah “raises the poor from the dust, and exalts the needy from the dunghill, to make him sit with princes” (1 Sam. 2:8).
The Law included provisions in favor of the poor.
In the NT we read of various blind beggars receiving blessing (Mark 10:46; Luke 18:35; John 9:8), and the Lord gave an account of the beggar Lazarus who was carried by angels to the bosom of Abraham (Luke 16:20, 22; cf. Acts 3:2).