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 devour the debtors’ houses, and so have their birth.”
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