1 TIMOTHY 6:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction — the cascade of consequence: the epithumia (desire) for ploutos (wealth) leads through peirasmos (temptation) and pagis (snare) into bathus (deep) perdition. Financial ambition proves spiritually lethal.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:9
“But they that will be rich”; not those that are rich, but those who wish to be. For a man may have money and make a good use of it, not overvaluing it, but bestowing it upon the poor. Such therefore he does not blame, but the covetous. He has justly said, “they drown men,” since they cannot be raised from that depth. “In destruction and perdition.”
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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