Psalms 15:5 [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.
Ver. 5. He that putteth not out his money to usury] To biting usury, so some distinguish it from Tarbith, the toothless usury. But both these are condemned, Ezekiel 18:8; Ezekiel 18:13, and no man of note in all antiquity (Jews and Manichees excepted) for one thousand five hundred years after Christ hath ever undertaken the defence thereof. Here and Neh 5:7-11 it is plainly cried down; neither is there any ground in Scripture for that distinction of usury into biting and toothless. The beaver biteth so sore, as that he never looseth his teeth until he have broke the bones. Usury-Usurers
Nor taketh reward against the innocent] Olim didici quid sint munera, said one. A good man, as he despiseth the gain of oppressions, so he shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, Isaiah 33:15, lest the touching thereof should infect and benumb him; as Pliny writeth of the fish torpedo, and as histories report of Demosthenes, that great lawyer, tempted and prevailed with against right, by poisoning Harpalus's goblet.
He that doeth these things] For not the hearers of the law, but the doers shall be justified, Romans 2:13. And to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory, and honour, and immortality, shall be eternal life, Romans 15:7 .
Shall never be moved] Potest in momentum moveri, sed non in aeternum: resurget enim, saith R. Solomon here, Moved he may be for a time, but not removed for ever. His soul is bound up in the bundle of life, near unto the throne of glory; when the souls of the wicked are restless as a stone in the midst of a sling, saith the Targum, in 1 Samuel 15:1,35 .