“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”
But the rich should take pride in their humiliation — because they will pass away like a wild flower — the prosperous are called to boast not in wealth (which provides no spiritual advantage) but in their humiliation, their reduction to equality with the poor in God's sight. The flower imagery draws from Isaiah 40:6-8, where human glory withers while God's word endures forever. The 'will pass away' (pareleuthein) suggests not merely individual death but the ultimate obsolescence of material advantage before God's eternal kingdom.
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