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:
51. That riches acquired by theft, fraud, calumny, and falsehood, will not endure.
52. Against the rich and mighty men of this world.
53. That it is difficult for a rich man to be saved.
54. That it is lawful to possess riches.
55. Against the hope of the wicked.
56. Against those who put their hope in the help of man.
57. That we must not trust in transitory things.
58. That we must always trust in the Lord.
59. Of spiritual riches.
60. Of the contempt of riches.
61. Of the commendation of poverty.
62. That the Church increases spiritually through poverty and adversity.
63. Of those who consciously trample upon the world.
64. Of the misery and labour of human life.
65. Against avarice and covetousness, and its effects.
Scripture:
Against the hope of the wicked.
| Job 20:8 | As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night: |
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. |
| Job 21:29 | Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things. |
| Job 24:20 | Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree. |
| Ps 36:35 | I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. |
| Ps 39:5 | Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies. |
| Prov 10:25 | As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation. |
| Eccles 11:8 | If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity. |
| Wis 5:15 | For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by. |
| Eccli 5:3 | And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my deeds? for God will surely take revenge. |
| Eccli 21:11 | The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains. |
| Isa 28:15 | For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected. |
| Isa 30:2 | Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow of Egypt. |
| Isa 33:1 | Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised. |
| Jer 12:1 | Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? |