upon usury] Exodus 22:25. Levit. 25. 36, 37. Deuteronomy 23:19. Psalms 15:5. Usury and increase: the first word in Heb. properly signifieth biting, from the effect, because it doth bite or eate out a mans estate; the latter word signifieth multiplication or increase; in Greek it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Matthew 25:27. Luke 19:23. a birth, because hereby money begetteth money, as Arist. shewes, in Polit. Book 1. Chap. 7. Thus money was not to be lent to the poor, Exodus 22:25. Leviticus 25:36. 37.