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| | Self-Love and the sin of Avarice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | If the author of these verses had been any other saint, we might excuse ourselves by saying that he was writing about and for a given period of time, and that his sentiments no longer applied in the same way to us and our age. |
 | | But we are dealing here with revelation; the letters of Paul to his zealous co-worker Timothy are enthroned in the canon of divine revelation, and this teaching on avarice, no less than any other, deserves our reverent acceptance. |
 | | By singling out avarice, St. Paul is naming the genus, cupidity or inordinate desire, by its most noticeable and prominent species that is, he is referring to all temporal goods by their most visible and coveted representative, Mammon. |
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