Moral Concordance
S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum
"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."
Categories:
1. Against sin, absolutely.
2. Of the weight of sin.
3. Of the blindness of sin.
4. Of the hardness of sin.
5. Of the chains of sin.
6. Of new devices in sin.
7. Of gluttony.
8. Of drunkenness.
9. Against gluttony and drunkenness, in common.
10. Against daintiness in meats.
11. Against those who provoke to excessive eating and drinking.
12. Of temperance, or sobriety.
13. That the flesh must be subdued to the spirit; or of temperance and carnal, desires.
14. Of fasting.
15. Against indiscreet fasting.
16. Of a good feast.
17. Of good enebriation.
18. Of lasciviousness and its effects.
19. Of either fornication or riotess living.
20. Of spiritual fornication.
21. Against adultery.
22. Against either rape or deflowering.
23. Against prostitution.
24. Against incest.
25. Against womanizers.
26. Against sodomy.
27. Of a bad kiss.
28. Of a good kiss.
29. Of bad women.
30. Of good women.
31. That wives be submissive to husbands.
32. Of chastity or continence.
33. Of the twofold continence of mind and body.
34. Of virgins and virginity.
35. Against excessive confidence in continence.
36. Of widows and widowhood.
37. Of joining together and marriage.
38. Against opponents of marriage.
39. Against covetousness.
40. Against fraudulent buying, selling or negotiation.
41. Against bad loans or usurers
42. Of good loans or good lenders.
43. Against seeking and retaining earthly abundance.
44. Against those that keep back the pay of their labourers.
45. Against theft and thieves.
46. Against sacrilege.
47. Against holding back tithes, first-fruits and offerings.
48. Against simoniacs or simony.
49. Against the four sins crying to God.
50. That robbers and usurers have to restitute or recompense damages.
Scripture:
Against covetousness.
| Jos 7:20-21 | And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. |
| III Ki 21:2 | And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. |
| IV Ki 5:20 | But Giezi the servant of the man of God said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some thing of him: |
| Eccli 14:3-4 | Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? |
| Eccli 14:9 | The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up. |
| Mt 27:5 | And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed: and went and hanged himself with an halter. |
| Acts 5:1-2 | BUT a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a piece of land, |
| I Tim 6:9-10 | For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. |