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He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
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All chapters Luke 12:16–21
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17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
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18
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
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19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
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Verse 19. Much goods, and so forth It is evident how far this poor man was mistaken, when he called these things goods, which with more reason ought to be esteemed evils. The only things that can rightly be called goods, are humility, modesty, and its other attendants. The opposite to these ought to be esteemed evils; and riches we ought to consider as indifferent. Saint John Chrysostom
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“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
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So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
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