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Extortion
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
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EXTORTION (ἁρπαγή).—The word is used by Christ in His terrible arraignment of the scribes and Pharisees, on account of the way in which, by their methods of plunder, they openly violated the Scriptures they knew so well (Matthew 23:25, Luke 11:39). Isaiah (Isaiah 16:4) had predicted the cessation of the extortioner as one of the signs of the Messianic reign. Ezekiel (Ezekiel 22:12) had inveighed against this sin as one of the transgressions of Israel which called forth the Divine wrath. Yet they, who claimed to keep the Law to the letter, and who professed to be the teachers of the Law, fattened themselves on extortion and filled their cups by it. For the methods of extortion practised by the publicans see art. Publican.
Henry E. Dosker.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Extortion'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/e/extortion.html. 1906-1918.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Extortion'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/e/extortion.html. 1906-1918.
