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 misery and labour of human life.
| Gen 3:16 | To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee. |
| Gen 8:21 | And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done. |
| Job 13:25 | Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw. |
| Job 14:1 | Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. |
| Eccles 2:11 | And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun. |
| Eccles 2:16 | For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned. |
| Eccles 2:23 | All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity? |
| Eccles 3:10 | I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it. |
| Eccles 6:7 | All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. |
| Eccli 40:1 | Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam, from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. |
| Eph 5:15 | See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise, |