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"What do you think of usury—what do you think of murder?" Cato, Roman Statesman, 234-149 B.C.
Martin Luther: On trading and usury
http://www.lutherdansk.dk/Martin%20Luther%20-%20On%20trading%20and%20usury%201524/ON%20TRADING%20AND%20USURY%20-%20backup%20020306.htm
Martin Luther’s Treatise On Usury: The Effect of Materialism on Spirituality
https://history.hanover.edu/hhr/18/HHR2018-fergus.pdf
The Third Lateran Council (1179):
Nearly everywhere the crime of usury has become so firmly rooted that many, omitting other business, practice usury as if it were permitted, and in no way observe how it is forbidden in both the Old and New Testament.
Pope Benedict XIV:
“The nature of the sin called usury has its proper place and origin in a loan contract. This financial contract between consenting parties demands, by its very nature, that one return to another only as much as he has received. The sin rests on the fact that sometimes the creditor desires more than he has given. Therefore, he contends some gain is owed him beyond that which he loaned, but any gain which exceeds the amount he gave is illicit and usurious.”
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