 | Fernand Braudel - 1992 - 678 pages
...central to western culture, goes back twenty-five centuries to the ancient commandment of Deuteronomy: 'Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury.' A good example... | |
 | James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg - 1994 - 612 pages
...similar condemnations of usury in the Bible. The Old Testament placed limits upon lending: Thou shall not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lertt upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy... | |
 | Rulon T. Burton - 1994 - 1218 pages
...increase, . . . (Ezekiel preaches the word of the Lord) Ezek. 1 8:5,8 Recorded in Deuteronomy Thou shall not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any Ihing that is lent upon usury: (Commandments to Israel through Moses) Deut.23: 19 Elder... | |
 | Bernard Lazare - 1995 - 228 pages
...Luce (Catalogue des documents du Tresor des Chartes (Revue des Etudes Juives, t. I, 3). 59 "Thou shall not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger (nokhri) thou mayest lend upon usury."... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - 576 pages
...the fathers cannot be evaded, but at least there are other fathers to choose from and to emulate. 3 'Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is leant upon usury: Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy... | |
 | Alan Dundes - 1997 - 148 pages
...stereotype. Despite the unequivocal prohibition against usury articulated in Deuteronomy (23:19-20): "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy... | |
 | M. Kienholz - 1999 - 334 pages
...writer in the Old Testament exempted strangers from the benefits of low interest loans: Thou shall not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Upon a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy... | |
 | Jochen Hörisch - 2000 - 366 pages
...interest. The famous prohibition against interest in Deuteronomy 23:19-20 provides an example: "Thou shall not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 2021 - 636 pages
...cases, are recited in the declaration. The Jews were prohibited from taking interest from each other ; " Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother ; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto... | |
 | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) - 2002 - 364 pages
...forbid sin. But usury of a kind is permitted under the Divine law, according to Deuteronomy 23: 19f: 'Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury.' Indeed, it... | |
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Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury... 
