The money-changers were in the temple.

Bankers and Money Changers.

The money-changers' clerks sat by the bags of coin, with scales and shovel and the tables of exchange.

" At the tables of the "money-changers," just outside of the sacred enclosure, are the real moneymakers, who give nothing for something.

And thus for three bright years that little shop came to be, for a daily hour or so, a blessed palm-tree away from the burden and heat of the noon, a holy place whither the money-changers and such as sold doves might never come, let their clamour in the outer courts ring never so loud.

Was it but fancy that a rabble Of money-changers bought and sold, Filling with sacrilegious babble This temple-court of solemn gold?

Worse than the money-changers whom Christ scourged out of the Temple, the guardians of this edifice make use of His crucifixion and resurrection as a means of gain.

The Rialto, the resort of the money changers and Jews, is a very singular and picturesque construction, being of one arch, a very bold one.

The Pont au Change (then covered on each side with houses and shops occupied by goldsmiths and money-changers) was the place where these people carried on their trade; and they had the privilege of hanging their cages against the houses, even without the sanction of the proprietors.

The goldsmiths and money-changers, however, finding that this became a nuisance, and that it injured their trade, tried to get it abolished.

At the end of the sixteenth century the quarrel became so bitter that the goldsmiths and changers took to "throwing down the cages and birds and trampling them under foot," and even assaulted and openly ill-treated the poor bird-dealers.

These Italians constituted the great corporation of money-changers in Paris, and hoarded in their coffers all the coin of the kingdom, and in this way caused a perpetual variation in the value of money, by which they themselves benefited.

The ecclesiastics, the nobility, the bourgeois, all gave up their plate and their jewels to furnish the mint, which continued to coin money of every description, and, in consequence of the discovery of America, and the working of the gold and silver mines in that country, the precious metals poured into the hands of the money-changers.

"Another monument," he remarked, indicating a new church lifting its spires among the money-changers' booths.

Many workmen ply their trades in the open street, and you are sure to see quack doctors, letter-writers, and money-changers.

The argentarii were originally, as their name suggests, only money-changers, a class of small business men that arose in response to a need felt as soon as increasing commerce and extended empire brought foreign coin in large quantities to Rome.

There is a momentary sensation of the freedom of the woods, a whiff of oxygen for the anxious money-changers.

Brand changers of Outlaw Pass.

Brand changers of Outlaw Pass.

By the side of the street, money-changers, wrapped in silent consideration, bent over their trays of queer and outlandish coins.

Purge Thy Temple as Thou didst in Jerusalem of old time, when Thou didst overset the tables of the money-changers.

when the parson got after the money-changers in the Temple, but would shut up and look sour when he took a crack at the short-weight prune-sellers of the nineteenth century.

Money and its uses developed money changers, money lenders and banks.

Traders and money changers, with an eye for business in a growing marketplace made a more ample living.

Parasitic professions abound and proliferate: money changers, money lenders, realtors, confidence men, gamblers, fortune tellers, priests, entertainers, artists, thieves, robbers, and prostitutes abound, consume more than their share of the community income, without making an equivalent return in production or service.