They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed, they themselves discarding the precious metals which they possessed as having now lost all their value, as being loathsome, in fact, in view of the abuses to which they had been put; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; Cf 1 Peter 1:18. They shall not satisfy their souls, so that their lives would be spared, neither fill their bowels, in providing the necessaries of life, their money being unable to procure for them either deliverance from the sword or deliverance from a death by hunger, because it, their wealth, is the stumbling-block of their iniquity, the cause of many of their transgressions.

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