^ Usury is nowhere forbidden in the New Testament. ' " Matthew XXV., 27 — " Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury." — (Et vide, Luke xix., 22.)
- Exodus XX., 24. f Leviticus xxv., 35. J Commentaries on the Laws of Moses. § Deut. xxiii., 20, 21.
JEW AND GENTILK. 19 methods, recognized and in use among the Jews, of placing out money at interest, for increase or profit, which were not inconsistent with the Mosaical law.
But we have also the testimony of St. Thomas Aquinas^ and Calvin, the latter of whom declared that he knew of no Scriptural authority by which usury was wholly condemned. " Nullo testimonio" says he, " Scrijoturce mihi constat tisuras omnino dam- nattis esse."^ And many other learned and pious men were of opinion that usury was only unlawful, even among the Jews, when coupled with extortion or oppression.^ To return, however, to the other point.'- How are we to account for the distinction between the