wealth / love of money
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
love of money · mammon · riches · the abundance of wealth · wealth
spoken of as
1 expressionLove of Money/Wealth1 mention
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
The first friend would be the abundance of wealth and the love of money, on account of which a man falls into countless dangers and endures many hardships;
in the texts
Stromata
Wealth and the love of money, repeatedly criticized as a hindrance to the gnostic life.
"Wealth, taking men who see more than the other, makes them blind.
For indeed not only of wealth and glory and marriage, but also of poverty, are there countless cares for the man who cannot bear it;
Barlaam and Josaphat
Attachment to wealth, allegorized as the first, useless friend in the parable.
The first friend would be the abundance of wealth and the love of money, on account of which a man falls into countless dangers and endures many hardships;