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Often appears with: providence and divine governance · prayer and worship · poverty and wealth · pleasure, pain, and the good life · misuse versus proper use of property · matthew 6 on hoarding · loss of wealth during persecution · godliness as true gain · fear of poverty · famine, scarcity, and plenty · equity, mercy, and pardon · contentment versus covetousness
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He answers whether faithful believers suffer real loss by insisting God’s people do not lose true wealth—faith, godliness, and inner treasure—though they may lose worldly goods during events like the sack of Rome.
perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil; which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."[50] They, then, who lost their worldly all in the sack of Rome, if they owned their possessions as they had been taught by the apostle, who himself was poor without, but rich within,--that is to say, if they used the world as not using it,--coul…
Anthony advises that believers should store treasures in heaven rather than in the ground, so persecutors cannot seize them, and Vincent admits he struggles with the fear of lacking a livelihood.
and sure enough, digging it full deep in the ground, and yet have missed it when they came again and found it digged out and carried away to their hands. ANTHONY: Nay, from their hands, I think you would say. And it was no marvel. For some such have I known, too, but they have hid their goods foolishly in such place as they were well warned before that they should not. And that were they warned by him whom they wel…