Bible Dictionary: Natural Life: The Enjoyment of, Consists not in Abundance of Possessions

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

The Rich Fool
... is the consequence of a lie"that life does consist ... of some event or thing in the
natural sphere, transferred ... labour of acquiring it, and the enjoyment of it ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the rich fool.htm

Book I.
... For what enjoyment remains to us, from whom so ... the payment of thankfulness to God
consists in dispositions ... not with the body, nor do natural life and merits ...
//christianbookshelf.org/ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/book i.htm

Epistle Lxiii. Limenius, Bishop of Vercellæ, Having Died, the See ...
... says: "Be ye angry and sin not." [3733] He does not govern his anger, but indulges
his natural disposition, which a ... Let your enjoyment of this life be with ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/epistle lxiii limenius bishop of.htm

A Treatise to Prove that no one Can Harm the Man who Does not ...
... sour: of honey when it loses its natural sweetness, and ... be more precious than health
and life, and public ... For nothing is so conducive to enjoyment and health ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/a treatise to prove that.htm

The Marriage Feast in Cana of Galilee - the Miracle that is a Sign ...
... 1734] sometimes wisely, to the general enjoyment, [1735] till ... after those thirty
years of the Nazareth-Life. ... she had to unlearn, was the natural, yet entirely ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter iv the marriage feast.htm

The Backslider in Heart.
... you have no heart in it, no enjoyment, if you ... and has promised to answer our request,
is natural and reasonable ... the whole course of his backslidden life must be ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture xxi the backslider in.htm

The True Nonconformist.
... They were not the natural, spontaneous outgrowths of a ... and that in the use and enjoyment
of it ... religious life, a factitious conscience, a life wanting the ...
/.../vincent/amusement a force in christian training/the true nonconformist.htm

The Women of the Gospel Narrative the Study of the Early Christian ...
... As is natural, a very great deal of the grace ... much either to the grace or the enjoyment
of life. ... in the varied settings of common feminine life is irresistible ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/i the women of the.htm

part ii.
... by acting out some principle of natural sympathy, conscience ... a fund to meet the
contingencies of life. ... have been awake neither to the enjoyment nor obligations ...
//christianbookshelf.org/clark/the faithful steward/part ii.htm

The First Stages. Ch. 9:51 to 13:21
... to Christ such a close human and natural relationship, but ... was heaping up goods for
selfish enjoyment in future ... and that the real value of life consists in the ...
/.../erdman/the gospel of luke an exposition/a the first stages ch.htm