1 TIMOTHY 6:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils, and by craving it some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs — the root-metaphor (rhiza) establishes philarguria (love of money) as generative of manifold transgressions. Some (tines) have explicitly apostasized (apeplanēthesan), turning from faith into self-inflicted suffering (peri ... heautous).
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:10
Two things he mentions, and that which to them might seem the more weighty he places last, their “many sorrows.” And to learn how true this is, the only way is to sojourn with the rich, to see how many are their sorrows, how bitter their complaints.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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