 | Allan H. Keith - Socialism - 1992 - 80 pages
...fundamental element of capitalism -- lending at interest -- is prohibited in Exodus 22:25. It says: "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor...be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." Psalms 82:3 says: "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 412 pages
...any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; 24 And my wrath shall...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless: This special threat against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, has a touch of tenderness... | |
 | James Nohrnberg - Religion - 1995 - 426 pages
...talio: "If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless" (Exod. 22:23-24). The logic is, one way or another the cry of the bereaved will not go unheard —... | |
 | Stephen Innes - Business & Economics - 1995 - 432 pages
...capitalization.32 Puritans, like their medieval forebears, took their injunctions against usury from Exodus 22:25: "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." Best crystallized in credit transactions, the separate... | |
 | Kenneth I. Pargament - Psychology - 2001 - 566 pages
...child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless" (Exodus 22:21-23). The reader of the New Testament hears: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven... | |
 | Jewish Publication Society - Religion - 1996 - 406 pages
...thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry — ''My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. MOSES PRESENTS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. ''If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the pix"r with... | |
 | Witness Lee - 1998 - 248 pages
...According to 22:25-27, an Israelite was not to be a usurer with respect to the poor. Verse 25 says, "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor...be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." All these ordinances are filled with sweetness. The spirit of God's law is tender and touching,... | |
 | Larry Brown - Anti-clericalism - 2000 - 24 pages
...what you do against a man of God. You who behind the scenes want to pull the strings — watch out! "And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with...shall be widows, and your children fatherless."— Exod. 22:24. She-bears came out and mauled forty-two children who made fun of Elijah's bald head. Why?... | |
 | Jochen Hörisch - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 366 pages
...settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it." There is another in Exodus 22:25: "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." The difficulties occasioned by the prohibition of... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...The spirit of poverty is to live in the gladness of today. Rule of Taize( 1961) 160 USURY AND TRADE 1 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Exodus, 22, 25 2 Wherefore then gavest not thou my... | |
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If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 
