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Therefore it is not a sin to take usury for lending money.
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What is it to take usury, according to the proper signification of the word?
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Therefore it is not a sin to take usury.
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Were not the Israelites forbidden to take usury from their brethren, whether poor or rich?
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Objection 1: It would seem that it is not a sin to take usury for money lent.
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When God sayth, Thou shalt not take usury, what creature of God art thou which canst take usury?
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Besides, these are usurers, yea, they take usury for victuals, which thing the Lord has forbidden (Deut 23:19).
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Whether It Is a Sin to Take Usury for Money Lent?
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23:9; and yet their being allowed to take usury from him, Deut.
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2: The Jews were forbidden to take usury from their brethren, i.e.
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56:11, they should take usury from the Jews who were worshippers of God.
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20, which justifies neither their nor our taking usury of our brethren, Lev.
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18:8): Who hath not taken usury [*Vulg.
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'Should any cleric be found to have taken usury,' the latter version runs, 'let him be degraded and excommunicated.
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21; the Israelites taking usury of the Canaanitish strangers, (who were destined to ruin both in their states and persons, Deut.
