Matthew 25:27
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers,.... "Trapezites", or "tablets", the same whom the Jews (z) call and is the same word which is here used in Munster's Hebrew Gospel; who…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
The exchangers - The “exchangers” were persons who were in the habit of borrowing money, or receiving it on deposit at a low rate of interest, to be loaned to others at higher interest. They commonly…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
put my money It was not thine own.
to the exchangers i. e. "to the bankers," literally, to those who stand at tables, (Lat. mensarii), because the bankers had tables before them. This was the very…
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