“For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?”
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? — the economic logic applied to ultimate value: the entire world's worth against the soul/self. The forfeit (zēmiōtheis, experiencing loss) communicates the irreversibility — there is no recovery of a forfeited self by the wealth of the world.
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