really important biblical probably almost as important as thou shalt not kill. that's because people believed that humans shouldn't profit from time because time belong to god. but in the late middle ages and the renaissance the economy had come to play a totally different role. money had to be available in the economy and making money and time available was beneficial so you had to make it worth your while. for. as a result there were more and more ways of getting around the ban on charging interest in practice from. the imperial decrees of the sixteenth century and now allowed christian money lenders to charge and next him a five percent interest on money. until then the credit industry had been solely in the hands of jewish money lenders this