But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? and do not they draw you before the judgment seats?
Glossa Ordinaria
Do not the rich. He shows more openly whom he had called rich above, namely those who prefer riches to Christ, and, being themselves strangers to the faith, oppress by power those who believe, and drag them to the judgement-seats of the more powerful. And there is another reason why they are not to be chosen, because they bring evils upon the faithful.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.