Usury or Interest: The Jews: Often Guilty of Taking
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Resources
What does the Bible say about going into debt? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about lending money? | GotQuestions.org

Should a Christian mortgage a home? | GotQuestions.org

Usury: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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