This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...synonymous, just as "rich" had come to signify "impious, evil-disposed, violent." These ideas had long been growing deeper and stronger. The Book of Enoch cursed the rich and powerful.1 It considers luxury as a crime, and in it the Son of man dethrones kings.2 1 Luke xiv. 12-14. Matt. v. 12, x. 41; Mark ix. 41 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...synonymous, just as "rich" had come to signify "impious, evil-disposed, violent." These ideas had long been growing deeper and stronger. The Book of Enoch cursed the rich and powerful.1 It considers luxury as a crime, and in it the Son of man dethrones kings.2 1 Luke xiv. 12-14. Matt. v. 12, x. 41; Mark ix. 41; Luke vi. 23,35; etc. Amos ii. 6; Isa. Ixiii. 9; Pa. xxv. 9, xxxvii. 11, Ixxix. 33. In the first century the rich man was the "bad rich man," and Jesus called money "the mammon of unrighteousness."3 That was the popular and current term for wealth. It was held to be always unjust and ill-gotten. The rich man who was " clothed in purple and fine linen," who "fared sumptuously every day," had already received "his good things," "his recompense," " that which was due him," and therefore in the abode of the dead he would be " in torment; " the poor man, who had been covered with sores, and to whom the rich man had not given even his crumbs to eat, would lie " in Abraham's bosom " and would be " comforted." Why? Because he had had " evil things" in his life. Therefore in the life to come compensation would be made him; the one would be " in anguish," and the other " comforted." 4 1 Chaps. xxiii., xc., c., civ. 2 Chap. xlvi. 4-8. 8 Luke xvi. 9. 4 Luke xvi. 19 ff. This doctrine of future compensation had been current since the times of the Maccabees, and it was this which had sustained and consoled the lowly and obscure. Their resignation was made of hope, and they bore their burden with so much the more courage in that they saw by faith the future abode of eternal felicity, the unending banquet where, lying in Abraham's bosom, they should drink the wine of the celestial Passover, which was promised to them forever. The Ebionite and the poor were, ...
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