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:
Of the contempt of riches.
| Tob 2:11-12 | And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. |
| Eccli 5:10 | Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge. |
| Mt 10:23 | And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come. |
| Lk 8:15 | But that on the good ground, are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience. |
| Lk 9:25 | For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, and cast away himself? |