Matthew 6:20
Douay-Rheims
But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.
Rabanus Maurus
(ap. Anselm.) Here are three precepts according to the three different kinds of wealth. Metals are destroyed by rust, clothes by moth; but as there are other things which fear neither rust nor moth, as precious stones, He therefore names a common damage, that by thieves, who may rob wealth of all kinds. a
Source details
A.D. 856 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:19-21
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.