AELW 9:70-71
Deuteronomy 6:10. When He brings you.
He continues his exposition of the First Commandment and begins to show in what ways one sins against it, and he teaches how to avoid occasions for sinning against it. First he takes up wealth and abundance, that is, mammon and greed, of which Baruch writes (3:17): “Gold, in which men trust.” And Paul makes greed idolatry and the root of all evil. “See to it [he says], when you are full, not to forget the Lord your God” (v. 12). For the human heart trusts goods at hand but mistrusts those not at hand, as the saying goes: “Having gold makes men bold; being poor makes them sour.” But trust in wealth cannot rule in the heart at the same time with faith and love. And this he calls here “to forget the Lord God.” For you do not remember the Lord if you merely mouth His name, but if you cling to Him and love Him with constant faith in your heart.
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