10I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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. …
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, …
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)It should seem the foregoing complaint was made to Nehemiah at the time when he had his head and hands as full as possible of the public business about building the wall; yet, perceiving it to be just, he did not reject it because it was unseasonable; he did not chide the petitioners, nor fall into a passion with them, for disturbing him when they saw how much he had to do, a fault which men of bu…
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