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HENCE many are led on over an abrupt precipice, and by an irrevocable
fall, to death, and not content to possess by themselves that money which
they either never had before, or which by a bad beginning they kept back,
they seek for women to dwell with them, to preserve what they have
unjustifiably amassed .or retained. And they implicate themselves in so
many harmful and dangerous occupations, that they are cast down even to the
depths of hell, while they refuse to acquiesce in that saying of the
Apostle, that "having food and clothing they should be content" with that
which the thrift of the monastery supplied, but "wishing to become rich
they fall into temptation and the snare of the devil, and many unprofitable
and hurtful desires, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the
love of money," i.e. covetousness, "is a root of all kinds of evil, which
some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in
many sorrows."
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