11
Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
Highlighted
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. For them, to the Persian governors, verse 14. Bible.—Nehemias remits this pension, which was before paid by the people, and exacted by the rich. Wolphius.—Du Moulin asserts that there is no question of usury, which the Jews always abhorred, much less of that which the Romans called the 100th, ( Calmet.) consisting in the payment of 12 per cent, ( Tirinus.) or one every month. Menochius.—Hebrew “Give back to them,” ( Bible.) that they may enjoy those things.
Private to this browser.