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49 Exod. xxii. 25; Lev. xxv. 35, 36 : Deut. xxiii. 19.
50 See Bingham, Antiq. vi. ii. 6, who refers to a Law of Honorius, A.D. 397. Cod. Theod. lib. 2, tit. 33, de usuris, leg. 3; and Gibbon, c. 44; who quotes several of the Fathers to prove that all lending with interest was forbidden; but most or all of them seem to be speaking of exorbitant interest, or of lending to the poor.
51 So St. Basil, as quoted below. "The husbandman having reaped the ear, seeks not again the seed under the root. But thou having the fruits, still givest not up that of which they grew. Thou plantest without land, thou reapest without seed."
52 St. Basil, Hom. in Ps. 14 (15), c. 3. "Interest upon interest,a bad offspring of bad parents. These may be well called a generation of vipers, I mean what our usuries bring forth. Vipers, they say, are yeaned, eating through their mother's womb: and these usurious gains devuor the debtors' houses, and so have their birth."
53 There is here and afterwards a play upon the word to/koj, gain, as a derivative of ti/ktein, to bring forth, which can hardly be expressed in English.
3 Titus ii.11, 12. [The Homily omits "to all men".]
6 Matt. xvii. 11. [R. V., "Elijah indeed cometh," etc.]
8 [The Hebrew does not have this; The argument rests on the inacurate rendering of the LXX.]
11 As to Elijah's future coming, see St. Just. Mart. Dial. adv.Tryph.p. 268, ed. Paris, 1636 Tert. de Anim. 35; de Resur. Carnis, 22; Origen (more doubtfully) in St. Matt. tom. 13, iii. 572; in St. Joan. tom. 3, iv. 92. St. Jer. in St. Matt. xi, 15, (t. 7, 70. Vallars. 1771), but doubtingly; in loco, p.132, more positively, St. Aug. in St. Joan. Tr. iv. 5.6. de Civ. Dei, 20.29: who speaks positively of his coming to convert the Jews, as being "a most common topic in the mouths and hearts of the faithful."
14 This refers apparently to such texts as Jer. xxx. 9; Ezek. xxxiv. 23, 24, xxxvii. 24; Hos. iii. 5.
19 ["Sinful" (a9martolw=n) is omitted in some Mss. of the Homily. It does not occur in Matt. xvii. 22, but is taken from Luke xxiv. 7. Comp. Homily LVIII. at the beginning.-R.]
26 [R. V., "for he is epileptic, and suffereth grievously".]
38 Mark ix. 23. [The word pisteu=saiij read here; The R V has a briefer reading. The entire passage in Mark shows many variations of text.-R.]
39 Matt. iv. 24. [selhniazome/nouj; The same term occurs here, and is the basis of the comrnent.-R.]
40 <\i>\tou= stoixei/ou<\|i>\, the Element.
44 St. Gregory Thaumaturgus: see his life by Nyssen.