Bible Dictionary: Riches: Fleeting

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Proverbs 23:5
Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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Revelation 18:16,17
And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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Library

Of Meditating on the Future Life.
... That they may not long with too much eagerness after fleeting and fading riches,
or rest in those which they already possess, he reduces them to want, or, at ...
/.../sergieff/on the christian life/chapter iv of meditating on.htm

Psalm XXXVII.
... Their hope is short-lived, frail, fleeting, transitory, baseless. ... "And thou shalt
be fed in its riches." What are the riches of that land? ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xxxvii.htm

Of Meditating on the Future Life.
... That they may not long with too much eagerness after fleeting and fading riches,
or rest in those which they already possess, he reduces them to want, or, at ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 9 of meditating on.htm

Vain Toil
... clothed we shall not be found naked.'. IV. A godless life is one of fleeting
riches. In Haggai's strong metaphor, the poor day-labourer ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/vain toil.htm

Sermon on the Mount Continued Its Woes in Strict Agreement with ...
... as if they thought they should continue long, and were not fleeting; who drink ... do
nothing else than show that the Creator dissuades men from riches, without at ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter xv sermon on the mount.htm

Remembering How Far the Writer of Our Book Excels all who have ...
... all who have ever come after him, in ability, wisdom, or riches, his groans of ... beacons,
warning us from danger, or from spending the one short fleeting life we ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter vi remembering how far.htm

The Gains of the Faithful Steward
... to material and external good, but also in regard to the durable riches of salvation ...
and absorbed in our adhesion to, and our desires after, fleeting good, then ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the gains of the faithful.htm

Of the Despising of the World
... by his falsehoods has scorned thee: so that thou shouldest desire fleeting things,
and ... plenty are beguiled by five things that they love: by riches; by dignity ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter ii of the despising.htm

The Objects of Prayer
... count as fleeting feeble shadow, in no way comparable to the saving holy gifts of
the God of All. What comparison is there between material riches and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter xi the objects of.htm

Advent the Heart Longing for the Inner Advent.
... Strengthless all, and merely nought; Have I greatness, it is fleeting; Have I riches,
are they aught. But a heap of glittering earth? Pleasure? ...
/.../advent the heart longing for.htm