Holy Scripture
Sirach 34:7
A church father on this verse
“Concerning this point, Peter, you must understand that there are six kind of dreams. For sometime they proceed of too much fulness or emptiness of the stomach: sometime by illusion: sometime both by thought and illusion: sometime by revelation: and sometime both by thought and revelation. The two first all by experien…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7It is a stumbling block unto them that sacrifice unto it, And every fool shall be taken therewith.
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5He that loveth gold shall not be justified, And he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.
6Gold hath been the ruin of many, And their destruction was present.
— Sirach 34:7 —
8Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, And hath not gone after gold.
9Who is he? and we will call him blessed: For wonderful things hath he done among his people.