Delusion of the Covetous
Anon. Mark 7:17-23 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.… Some of us may remember a fable of a covetous man, who chanced to find his way one moonlight night into a fairy's palace. There he saw bars, apparently of solid gold, strewed on every side; and he was permitted to take away as many as he could carry. In the morning, when the sun rose on his imaginary treasure, borne home with so much toil, behold! there was only a bundle of sticks, and invisible beings filled the air around him with scornful laughter. Such will be the confusion of many a man who died in this world with his thousands, and woke up in the next world not only miserable, and poor, and naked, but in presence of a heap of fuel stored up against the great Day of burning. (Anon.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. WEB: When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.