and hides Gomorrha in its heart.—Archdeacon Farrar. Mammon the greatest of all idols.—1. The idol of all times. 2. The idol of all nations. 3. The idol of all unconverted hearts. 4. The origin of all idolatry. 5. The first and the last among all the hidden idols of God’s people, both under the Old and the New Testament.—J. P. Lange, D.D. Vers. 24–34. Greed and care.—On the one side must be shunned the Scylla of greed, on the other the Charybdis of care.—J. M. Gibson, D.D.
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