Psalm 52:6-7 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:… I. A GREAT MISTAKE. 1. Because of the uncertainty of the tenure of riches. 2. Because of the limited power of riches. It can buy books, but not intellectual power; paintings, but not appreciative taste; service and sycophancy, but not esteem and affection, etc. It cannot buy pardon, peace, purity, etc. It cannot bribe death, etc. 3. Because of the utter inability of riches to satisfy their possessors. He who has much wealth would fain have more. II. A COMMON MISTAKE. The great race of the age is for the acquisition of wealth. Manhood is sacrificed for money. "How mournfully ironical it is," said Mr. Lance, "and how sad it seems, that death, with all that is pathetic, and solemn, and tender, and sublime about it, should stand associated with that love of money that is the root of all evil! Died worth £50,000! Why, worth, as I .understand it, is worthiness, and as I read Heaven's own imperial dictionary, a man is worth only just so much as, and no more than, the good, the true, the imperishable, that stands connected with his name, whether living or dying. I hope that the time may come when it will not seem strange to say that Shakespeare died worth Hamlet, and that Milton died worth the Paradise Lost, and that Bunyan died worth the Pilgrim's Progress. But at present material wealth is the deity of thousands in Christian England. III. A RUINOUS MISTAKE, IF PERSISTED IN (Luke 12:15-21). (W. Jones.) Parallel Verses KJV: The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:WEB: The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, |
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