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Following the injunctions Of the good
book in course, the next place we find the
subject Of usury spoke Of, is in Deuteron.
omy, chap. %, 10 and Goth verses. "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
stranger thou mayest lend upon usury,
but unto thy brother thou shall not lend
upon usury, SC. is the tenor Of the injunc-
ton. The command is addressed to the
Jews, the second person singular number
being made use Of, SO that it embraces all
Of them individually. Each person Of the
Jews, applying the command TO himself,
would thence learn, that he could not take,
interest money Of any other Jew whatever.
The Jews being peculiar people, were
considered by God as members of one fam
lily, SO that the word stranger" " made use
Of in the command, is made to embrace all
the gentle world. Although the Jews
were prohibited to take interest, one from
another, yet each and all Of them were per-
mitted to take it Of q stranger, that is, of
any person beside Jew; SO that two points
arise here to be considered, first, whether
the taking Of interest was wrong SUI gen.
eris, Of its own nature, and second, why
did He prohibit it among the Jews.


The first Of these questions will there
fore be considered, because if it shall not
appear TO be wrong Of its own nature, then
the prohibition will have to be accounted
for in some other way. "Deal Justly with
all men" is the substantive language Of the
Bible, Of the old Testament as well as the
new. Certainly, no principle is more full
4 ly inculcated in Gods commands to his peo-
pie, the Jews, than this, ssthou mayest not
Cypress stranger" They are permitted,
in the commando relative to the interest
money, 10 receive usury from stranger,


consequently, if the reception Of interes,
BY a lender be naturally wrong, then God
permitted his own people to do wrong
act, to support a wicked practice, which


was wicked per Sc. Aside from prohibiiory
laws, the reception ofinterest money is the
same the world over, in one age as well as
another, and the person from whom it may


be received cannot alter the natural effects
Of the practice. Therefore, if the natural
effect of the act was wrong among the Jews
SO it would be among the Gentiles. Hence
if God instituted this law among the Jews
because the taking of interest was wrong
per Sc, He at the same time informed then
they might still go on in their wicked prac
tices, if they would only have regard t.
the locality oftheir wickedness. The com
mand only changed ,''v "osa-o o--....a i
.ara 10 rnem, in effect, you may sin if 20,
will only 60 over the bounds Of the Hol,


Land. In as much as the attributes o
Jehovah are fully understood in this par
| ticular, the fallacy of such reasoning easil,
appears, and we are authorized to conclude


that the taking of interest is not wrong pc,


Sc, and that it was not, for this reason, pro
hibited among the Jews.


~ Go be Continued. 8