Bible Encyclopedia: The Poor: Take No Usury From

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Whether it is a Sin to Take Usury for Money Lent?
... For no man sins through following the example of Christ. ... to any of thy people that
is poor, that dwelleth ... I answer that, To take usury for money lent is unjust ...
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Zacchaeus
... poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he
be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury ...
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Excursus on Usury.
... enjoins that such deposition is to take place only ... to the conclusion that the Church
imposed no penalty on ... gives his acquired wealth to the poor and abstains ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/excursus on usury.htm

A Rebuke against Extortion
... The customs of the world are no criterion for the ... Every attempt to take advantage
of the ignorance, weakness ... He became poor that through His poverty we might be ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 54 a rebuke against.htm

On the Third Part of the Psalm.
... Do we then suppose that God also says this, "I take it on ... if Christ be God, of which
there is no doubt, He ... show Himself to be the Surety for the poor, that He ...
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On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xix. 21,"Go, Sell that Thou Hast ...
... and he said, What shall I do?" I have no room where to ... say to my soul, Thou hast
much goods; take thy pleasure ... in purple and fine linen;" and "the poor man laid ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxxvi on the words.htm

Whether one May Give Alms Out of Ill-Gotten Goods?
... belongs to another, and give alms thereof; or even take something if there be no
other way ... he must ask the owner's consent, and then succor the poor man who ...
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A Lecture for Little-Faith
... the faith he has shall not have more "Take away from ... ruddy hue in their cheeks their
hands no longer tingles ... or go and catch seven or eight poor ragged children ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/a lecture for little-faith.htm

Wherefore, that Thou May'st be Rightly Disposed Both for Thy Soul ...
... Not only to give poor men meat and drink: but to forgive them that do thee ... as GOD
sends for the time and the day, whatever it be, I take out no manner of ...
/.../chapter vi wherefore that thou.htm

On the Fast of the Tenth Month, vi.
... prophet says, "for when he dieth he shall take nothing away ... is both the proper Surety
[715] for the poor and the ... unjust gain is the cause of by no means unjust ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xvii on the fast.htm