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
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 18
VERSE (17) - :8 Job 29:16 Pr 14:31; 29:7,14 Jer 22:16 Da 4:27 Mt 18:27-35
