Usury

Charity which now means liberality to the poor and a disposition to judge others kindly and favorably was at that time a synonym of love and used interchangeably with love in the translations of the Greek. This is especially noted in the panegyric of love in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians and faithfully corrected in the Revised Version though some have felt that the beauty and especially the euphony of the familiar passage has been marred. But the word charity is no longer equivalent to love in our language and could not be retained without perverting the sense.