For if you love them who love you, what thanks have you? for sinners also love those that love them.
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
But man ought to shun that baneful anxiety with which he seeks from the poor man increase of his money and gold, exacting a profit of barren metals. Hence he adds, And lend, hoping for nothing again; If a man should call the harsh calculation of interest, theft, or homicide, he will not err. For what is the difference, whether a man by digging undera wall become possessed of property, or possess it unlawfully by the compulsory rate of interest?
