Matthew 6:19 Douay-Rheims

Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal.

John Chrysostom (attributed)

Patristic

Another reading is, Where moth and banqueting consume. For a threefold destruction awaits all the goods of this life. They either decay and are eaten of moths as cloth; or are consumed by their master’s luxurious living; or are plundered by strangers, either by violence, or pilfering, or false accusation, or some other unjust doing. For all may be called thieves who hasten by any unlawful means to make other men’s goods their own. But you will say, Do all who have these things, perforce lose them? I would answer by the way, that if all do not, yet many do. But ill-hoarded wealth, you have lost spiritually if not actually, because it profits you not to your salvation.

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as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:19-21

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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