For they who wish to become rich. [4] He does not say, as St. John Chrysostom observes, they who are rich; as persons may be rich, and make good use of their riches to God's honour, and the good of others. But such as would be rich, who see riches, and have their heart and affections upon riches, fall into various temptations of injustice, of pride, and vanity, into hurtful lusts, which drown and plunge[5] men into perdition, &c. (Witham)

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Qui volunt divites fieri, Greek: oi boulomenoi. St. John Chrysostom, ( Greek: log. iz. p. 321.) Greek: ouk aplos eipen, oi ploutountes, all oi boulomenoi.

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Mergunt, Greek: buthizousi.

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