Moral Concordance

S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum

"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."

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Ex 22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.
Deut 15:6 Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have dominion over thee.
Deut 23:19 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:
Deut 24:10 When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:
Deut 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.
II Esd 5:7 And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
Salm 14:5 he that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things shall not be moved for ever.
Salm 108:11 May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
Prov 28:8 He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.
Ecli 14:4 He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting.
Ezeq 18:13 That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an increase: shall such a one live? he shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these detestable things, he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.
Lc 6:34-35 And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? for sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much.