詩篇註釋 第 10 章 第 3/3 段

For to the one who is wronged the loss is but of money, but to the other the danger concerns the last things.

For what of it, even if they do not perceive the sickness in which they lie? This is an intensification of insensibility, and for this very reason they most of all ought to be pitied.

Since children too take no account of things truly fearful, but often even thrust their hands into fire, while at empty masks they are terrified and tremble at the sight.

The covetous resemble these children: dreading poverty, which is not fearful but is rather a ground of security;

yet setting great store by unjust wealth and covetousness, which is more fearful than any fire.

For everywhere covetousness is an evil.

This, then, the Prophet urges to be cut off entirely, threatening, terrifying, calling upon God to rise up for the punishment of such insensibility.

'You nations shall perish out of His land'—threatening them with utter destruction, and asking Him to become a helper and avenger of those who are wronged, so that these might take breath and those might be brought to their senses.

Let no one, therefore, pursue an abundance of riches.

From this source many evils are bred for those who give it no heed:

madness, sloth, envy, vainglory, and many others far more numerous than these.

But, that you may be delivered from all these things, cut out the root;

for while it does not remain, the wicked shoots do not sprout.

For this reason these things also have been said, not that we should merely hear them,

but that we should also amend our ways, and display much virtue in Christ Jesus;

to whom be the glory and the dominion unto the ages of ages.