Millard County Chronicle | 1932-01-07 | Page 3 | Biblical "Usury"

biblical usury the word clury has come in mod era ern english to mean excessive interest upon money loaned illegal or opples sive in the scriptures however the word did not bear this sense but meant simply interest of any kind upon money the jews jems were forbidden by the law of moses to take interest from their brethren but were permit ted to take it from foreigners the practice of mortgaging land sometimes at exorbitant interest intel Inte est iest grew up amon the jews during the captIN captivity Ity in di violation of the law