Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 36 · 1890
Witnesses Against You
Nehemiah 5:7
THE facts are these. At the time when certain of the Jews returned with Nehemiah to Jerusalem, many of them were in very straitened circumstances; and, contrary to the Jewish law, the richer Jews lent them money upon usurious interest, amounting to the hundredth per month, or twelve per cent, per…