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Nehemiah 5:6,7
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
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Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.
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A Rebuke against Extortion
... them money, but had exacted a high rate of interest. ... and others had ransomed certain
of the Jews who had ... them; and to lend to them without security or usury. ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 54 a rebuke against.htm

Letter Xciii. (AD 408. )
... Are you not afraid lest the Jews should say to you, "If ... by artful dishonesty obtained
their possessions, or by usury, at exorbitant interest, increased them ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xciii a d 408.htm

Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures ...
... Hence it is for their interest also that their iniquity ... bitterly against the hypocrisy
of the Jews, in thinking ... or in feasting; let none engage in usury or in ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 12 of the discipline.htm

Concerning Persecution
... Augustine calls this the best and greatest usury. ... mocked him, saying, Hail, King
of the Jews' (Matthew 27 ... that we would be true to Christ's interest and fight ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/21 concerning persecution.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... In the interest of his own power, as well as ... for the girl's mother, whom she believed
guilty of instigating ... restored to order, and, as was often customary in ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

Paul's Departure and Crown;
... All these are inquiries of the deepest interest"the most ... Paul tells us 'he was in
watchings often' (2 Corinthians ... Esther begged the life of the Jews, and the ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/pauls departure and crown.htm

Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.
... This man knows well how often I have done the same ... are conscious; yet we neither
blush like the Jews nor are ... kind which he now reproves in the interest of the ...
/.../various/life and works of rufinus with jeromes apology against rufinus /

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
... felonious actions; to all which he heartily confessed guilty, and so ... if his father
on such days, as often he did ... it was given in particular to the Jews, but as ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the life and death of.htm

Subtopics

Usury

Usury or Interest: Illustrative of the Improvement of Talents Received from God

Usury or Interest: Judgments Denounced Against Those Who Exacted Unlawful

Usury or Interest: The Curse Attending the Giving or Receiving of Unlawful,

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Allowed to Take, from Strangers

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren Specially when Poor

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Often Guilty of Taking

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Required to Restore

Usury or Interest: The Lending of Money or Other Property for Increase

Usury or Interest: Those Enriched by Unlawful, not Allowed to Enjoy Their Gain