| I Timothy 6:10
| For covetousness is the root of all evils; which some desiring, have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
| The root of all evils is covetousness,{ Ver. 10. Cupiditas, philarguria, amor pecuniae.|} or the love of money, as it is in the Greek; a covetous man being ready to sacrifice his soul for money. (Witham) --- This truth is verified and illustrated by the example of Judas, in the gospel; of Ananias and Saphira, in the Acts; of Demas, mentioned by St. Paul in his second epistle to Timothy; and many others, who have made shipwreck of their faith through eagerness to gain riches. Whoever seeks visible and terrestrial goods with great avidity, cannot be supposed to retain much faith in things that are celestial and invisible. He quits a future real and substantial good to seek for a delusive happiness that presents itself, but which will prove a source of present and future evils.
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