“"He was very rich," as is natural for one who was not lacking in any good thing, who did not covet the goods of others, because he lacked nothing of what he would have wished to regard as his own. For this is what it means to be rich: to have what is sufficient to satisfy one's own desires. Frugality has a measure. Ri…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On Abraham
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2And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
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1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
— Genesis 13:2 —
3And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
4Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.