Ezekiel 18:8

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. Every kind and degree of usury was forbidden to the Israelites among each other, to promote a spirit of mutual kindness. But this law was peculiar to them; like their not reaping the corners of their fields, and their not gleaning their vine-trees and olive-trees. Leviticus 19:9. Deuteronomy 24:19.