Wealth And Poverty

Ἡ τοῦ ἄρτου ἔνδεια οὐκ ἔστι λιμὸς, καὶ ἐσθημάτων ἀπορία, οὐ γυμνότης. Ὁ γὰρ τριχοφόρος βαπτιστὴς, καὶ ὁ τοῦ πλουσίου θυρωρὸς, ὁ πείνῃ καὶ γυμνώσει τακεὶς, εἰς τὴν ἅληκτον καὶ ἀπέραντον ἀναστρέφονται καὶ θάλπονται βασιλείαν. Ὁ δὲ πλουτῶν ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ βρωμάτων, καὶ ἐνδύματι βύσσου, γέενναν ἔχει, καὶ τὸ ταύτης πῦρ περιβόλαιον. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΤΟϚ Κυρῳ Source: Migne PG 78.425b

Want of bread is not famine and poverty of clothing is not nakedness. The Baptist wears a hair shirt and he is the door keeper of wealth, he who wasted away in hunger and nakedness, that men be turned to and be eager for the eternal and boundless kingdom. He who delights in rich foods and is vested in fine linen, he has hell and its fire enfolds him. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter Letter 276, to Cyrus