I grown rich,” getting more and more, and thus I am today (this is the force of the perfect tense). And these riches are so great that “I have need of nothing” (οὐδενός), or, “I have need of not one thing” (οὐδέν), the texts varying between the genitive and the accusative. This is complete self-sufficiency which is based on wholly imaginary riches. It is utter self-delusion and blind pride. To think of material riches or of material and also of imaginary spiritual riches, is to misunderstand
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