Salvian the Presbyter

In his own words on Mark

• Mark 9:47

  Knowing that the lights of the eyes are like windows to our hearts, and that all corrupt desires enter us through the eyes, as if through a natural crevice, our Lord asks us to veil them from wandering about, in order to resist the spreading of their toxic illusions, so those illusions will not take ever firmer root in our hearts, having first budded in the eye.

  ON THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD 3.8

• Mark 10:23

  Note what kind of riches it is that God loves. Note what wealth does he demand that we should store up for children. Note what possessions he especially orders us to guard: faith, fear of God, modesty, holiness, and discipline. Nothing earthly, nothing base, nothing perishable or transitory.

  THE FOUR BOOKS OF TIMOTHY TO THE CHURCH 1.4

• Mark 10:25

  There is no compelling necessity for you to store up large earthly treasures for your children. You would do better to make your offspring treasures of God than make them richer in worldly goods.

  THE FOUR BOOKS OF TIMOTHY TO THE CHURCH 1.4