Moral Concordance
S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum
"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."
Categories:
51. That riches acquired by theft, fraud, calumny, and falsehood, will not endure.
52. Against the rich and mighty men of this world.
53. That it is difficult for a rich man to be saved.
54. That it is lawful to possess riches.
55. Against the hope of the wicked.
56. Against those who put their hope in the help of man.
57. That we must not trust in transitory things.
58. That we must always trust in the Lord.
59. Of spiritual riches.
60. Of the contempt of riches.
61. Of the commendation of poverty.
62. That the Church increases spiritually through poverty and adversity.
63. Of those who consciously trample upon the world.
64. Of the misery and labour of human life.
65. Against avarice and covetousness, and its effects.
Scripture:
That the Church increases spiritually through poverty and adversity.
| Gen 41:52 | And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty. |
| Ps 86:1 | For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: |
| Ps 86:5 | Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her. |
| Eccli 10:11 | All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. |
| Eccli 10:21 | God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind. |
| Eccli 11:12-13 | Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty: |
| Isa 14:30 | And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant. |
| Isa 14:32 | And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him. |
| Isa 30:20 | And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher. |
| Acts 4:32-33 | And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul: neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed, was his own; but all things were common unto them. |
| II Cor 8:9 | For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor, for your sakes; that through his poverty you might be rich. |
| Eph 2:20 | Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: |
| I Pet 2:4 | Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God: |
| Apoc 2:9-10 | I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. |