Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Votre or et votre argent sont rouillés; et leur rouille s'élèvera en témoignage contre vous, et dévorera vos chairs comme un feu. Vous avez amassé des trésors dans les derniers jours!
KJV
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
n a furnace Psalm 12:6. On the other hand, in a negative sense: "Their gold and silver are corroded" James 5:3. Scum or rust, which silver deposits in the furnace, is likened to sinners when the furnace of hell consumes them. Precious stones symbolize apostles, saints, or virtuou…
Salvian of Marseille
Against Greed in four books Book One
evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days" (James 5:1-3). Besides the much greater and more terrifying severity of the hidden mystery of divine words, I think those that are clear are enough to inspire fear and trembling in…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 87 (Migne)
a et per apostolum male petentes redarguit dicens: Petitis et non accipitis, eo quod male petatis (Jac. V, 3) . Petite, fratres, at ut vobis pastorem secundum cor suum tribuat. In cujus electione si non plus temporalia quam spiritualia commoda studueritis attendere, gratiam sua…
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