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Calvin Elliott presents a logical argument for the condemnation of usury. The text includes a discussion on the evolution of the English language and the changing meanings of specific terms used in the King James Bible.

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CHAPTER XIV. ToC

It is not easy to understand how an honest, godly man, who has even medium intelligence, unclouded by prejudice, and who has confidence in the highest scholarship of the age, can deny that the revealed Word of God, in both Testaments, condemns usury or interest. It is just as difficult to explain how any one, not glaringly inconsistent, can claim that interest taking is not a sin, who bows to the divine authority of the revealed Word and who defines sin as "Any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God."

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