Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 5:10-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 5 in context

Scripture Focus

10I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

11Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

Nehemiah 5:10-11

Biblical Context

Nehemiah urges stopping usury and restoring lands, wealth, and crops to those taxed. It calls for righteous stewardship and mercy.

Neville's Inner Vision

Nehemiah 5:10-11 speaks of stopping usury and restoring what has been taken. In Neville’s sense, lands and coins become symbols: your inner states deserve restitution. When you say, I will leave off the usury, you change your own state of consciousness. The lands, vineyards, and houses are your faculties—reason, faith, vitality, creativity—needing free tenancy in mind to yield again. The hundredth part of money and corn is the exact measure of your imaginative wealth: feel your treasury complete, not grasping for more. The mercy you grant restores the divine economy that returns to the owner the faith given into life. Seek to revise your inner world and the world will reflect that healing. Restore in your imagination; let abundance feel real now, and observe life respond.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes; assume the feeling of leaving off usury and restoring what is mine within me. See my inner lands, vineyards, and houses restored now in imagination, and feel abundance as already given.