What did he teach respecting poverty and wealth?
“Blessed be ye poor” ([Luke vi, 20]).
“Woe unto you that are rich” ([24]).
Poverty is a curse; wealth honestly acquired and wisely used is a blessing. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty” ([Proverbs x, 15]).
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In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, what befell the representatives of vagrancy and respectability?
“The beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom” ([Luke xvi, 22]).
“The rich man also died, ... and in hell he lifted up his eyes” ([22, 23]).
“See the red flames around him twine