 The encyclical also did not prohibit profit from non-lending investment.The encyclical was published one year after an influential and controversial three-volume defense of usury by Francesco Scipione.Months after the publication of "Vix pervenit", Maffei published a second, almost identical edition of his treatise-which contained the full text of the encyclical and a dedication to Benedict XIV, his friend-with the imprimatur of the Catholic Church.