Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xiv Pg 2.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvi Pg 57
Ezek. xviii. 7.
That teaching was even then a sufficient inducement to me to do to others what I would that they should do unto me. Accordingly, when He uttered such denunciations as, “Thou shalt do no murder; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness,”4090 4090
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvii Pg 4
Ezek. xviii. 8. [Huet, Règne Social, etc., p. 334. Paris, 1858.]
—meaning the redundance of interest,4095 4095 Literally, what redounds to the loan.
which is usury. The first step was to eradicate the fruit of the money lent,4096 4096 Fructum fenoris: the interest.
the more easily to accustom a man to the loss, should it happen, of the money itself, the interest of which he had learnt to lose. Now this, we affirm, was the function of the law as preparatory to the gospel. It was engaged in forming the faith of such as would learn,4097 4097 Quorundam tunc fidem.
by gradual stages, for the perfect light of the Christian discipline, through the best precepts of which it was capable,4098 4098 Primis quibusque præceptis.
inculcating a benevolence which as yet expressed itself but falteringly.4099 4099 Balbutientis adhuc benignitatis. [Elucidation IV.]
For in the passage of Ezekiel quoted above He says, “And thou shalt restore the pledge of the loan”4100 4100
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvii Pg 10
Pignus reddes dati (i.e., fenoris) is his reading of a clause in Ezek. xviii. 16.
—to him, certainly, who is incapable of repayment, because, as a matter of course, He would not anyhow prescribe the restoration of a pledge to one who was solvent. Much more clearly is it enjoined in Deuteronomy: “Thou shalt not sleep upon his pledge; thou shalt be sure to return to him his garment about sunset, and he shall sleep in his own garment.”4101 4101
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 23
VERSE (19) - Ex 22:25 Le 25:35-37 Ne 5:1-7 Ps 15:5 Eze 18:7,8,13,16-18
