Esdra 7:22

Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much].

Ver. 22. Unto an hundred talents of silver] This was no small sum. How chargeable was the service of God heretofore to what it is now! and yet how heavily do men come off when to expend though but a very small sum that way! Ad quid perditio haec? To what end is this waste? is the common cry in this case. Surely Pagans and Papagans who lavish money out of the bag without measure, dotantque Deos alienos (as some read that text, Psa 16:3), shall have an easier judgment than such pinch penny professors.