“Riches cannot harm a good person, because he spends them kindly. Likewise they cannot help an evil person as long as he keeps them avariciously or wastes them in dissipation.”
Caesarius of Arles, 6th c. — SERMONS 35.4
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2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
— James 5:2 —
3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.