Usury - is the profit exacted for the loan of money, “increase” that which is taken for goods; both are forbidden Leviticus 25:36; Deuteronomy 23:19. The placing out of capital at interest for commercial purposes is not taken into consideration. The case is that of money lent to a brother in distress.
Verse Ezekiel 8:10 10. _HATH NOT GIVEN FORTH UPON USURY_] בנשך לא יתן _beneshech lo yitten_. נשך nasach signifies to _bite; usury_ is properly so termed, because it _bites_ into and _devours_ the _pr...
Ezekiel 18:1. In Ezekiel 18:1, we find the false accusation against God and the divine answer, and this is followed in Ezekiel 18:5 by the conditions of life, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” ...
HATH NOT GIVEN FORTH, &c. Ref'. to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:36; Leviticus 25:37; Deuteronomy 23:19). App-92.
Developement of the principle in three instances, chosen so as to exhibit it in its most paradoxical form 5 9. The man that is righteous shall live. First, his righteousness is defined generally as do...
Duties to one's neighbour....
On usury cf. the humane law, Leviticus 25:35-37. The case supposed is that of lending to the poor, Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 23:20. _executed true judgment_ When acting as judge, or as umpire between...
UPON USURY.— See Deuteronomy 23:19 : _unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury;_ whence it follows, that taking increase is not _malum per se;_ but agreeable to justice, if duly circumstanced. Ever...
CHAPTER NINE DOCTRINES AND DIRGES 18:1-19:14 In Chapter s 18 and 19 Ezekiel brings to a close the long section of his book which began in chapter 12. The prophet's purpose in these eight Chapter s ha...
He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, USURY - literally, biting [ ne...
GOD'S EQUITY VINDICATED The popular view of Israel's calamities, as expressed in a current proverb, was that they were the punishment of the sins of former generations. Though there was a measure of t...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 * In this chapter, the *Lord explains that each person...
GIVEN FORTH UPON USURY. — In Scripture usury does not mean excessive interest, as often in modern legislation, but any interest at all. This was strictly forbidden in the law to be taken of any Hebrew...
בַּ † נֶּ֣שֶׁךְ לֹֽא ־יִתֵּ֗ן וְ תַרְבִּית֙...
THE RELIGION OF THE INDIVIDUAL Ezekiel 18:1 IN the sixteenth chapter, as we have seen, Ezekiel has asserted in the most unqualified terms the validity of the principle of national retribution. The na...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's te...
_Increase more than what he lent, on any pretext. (St. Jerome) (Calmet)_...
I include all these verses under one view in reading, the better to gather also into one view the just and unalterable reasoning of the Lord upon them. Here are three cases stated, in a father, and a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 contains an important principle of the dealings of God, unfolded at that period. God would judge the individual according to his own con...
HE [THAT] HATH NOT GIVEN FORTH UPON USURY,.... Money, victuals, or any other thing, which was forbidden the Jews to take of their brethren, though they might of strangers, Deuteronomy 23:19; NEITHER...
He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, Ver. 8. _He that hath not gi...
_If a man be just_ Or _righteous_, rather, as the word צדיק properly signifies; for it is not mere honesty, but true religion that is intended. _And hath not eaten upon the mountains_ Feasted on the s...
he that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, in exacting interest from a poor neighbor, contrary to the law of love, Deuteronomy 23:20; Leviticus 25:36, THAT HATH WITHDRAW...
The Principle of God's Avenging Justice...
1-20 The soul that sinneth it shall die. As to eternity, every man was, is, and will be dealt with, as his conduct shows him to have been under the old covenant of works, or the new covenant of grace...
GIVEN FORTH; lent or put into another's hand, on condition of returning not the same, or equal value, but much more. UPON USURY; biting usury, (as the word implieth,) which no doubt is prohibited beca...
Ezekiel 18:8 exacted H5414 (H8799) usury H5392 taken H3947 (H8799) increase H8636 withdrawn H7725 (H8686) hand...
THE RIGHTEOUS FATHER. “But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right, and has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his n...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for Israel in captivity. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: He who makes conscience of conforming in everything to the will of God, who makes it his business to serv...
Ezekiel 18:2. _The fathers have eaten sour_ (unripe) _grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge._ Chaldaic, the children follow them. This proverb threw the blame on their fathers, on Adam, on...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:5 Ezekiel describes three generations: a righteous father (vv. Ezekiel 18:5) and his wicked son (vv....
(Ezekiel 18:5.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—True righteousness is described as the fulfilment of the commandments of God. Through such righteousness the righteous shall live. Ezekiel 18:5. “THAT WHICH IS LAWFU...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 18:1, EZEKIEL 18:2 WHAT MEAN YE, THAT YE USE THIS PROVERB, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, and we see at once from what it started. Ezekiel had heard from the l...
CHAPTER 18. THE RETRIBUTIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Ezekiel 18:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 18:2. _Why do ye use this proverb upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers...
Now there are instructions for those who have been taken to Babylon, and Ezekiel now turns and speaks to them. The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, What mean ye, that you use this proverb conce...
2 Samuel 22:24; Deuteronomy 1:16; Deuteronomy 1:17; Deuteronomy 16:18;...
Increase — Illegal interest. Iniquity — Injustice of every kind....