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:
That it is difficult for a rich man to be saved.
| Ps 48:12 | and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names. |
| Eccli 11:10 | My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake: and if thou run before thou shalt not escape. |
| Mt 19:23 | Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. |
| Mk 10:23-24 | And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the kingdom of God! |
| Lk 18:24 | And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. |
| I Tim 6:9 | 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. |