Wealth And Salvation

Et circumspiciens Jesus, ait discipulis suis: Quam difficile qui pecunias habent, in regnum Dei introibunt. Discipuli autem obstupescebant in verbis ejus. At Iesus rursus respondens ait illis: Filioli, quam difficile est, confidentes in pecuniis, in regnum Dei introire. Ecce explanatio, quia eos quos primo dixit habere pecuniam: nunc exponendo dicit esse qui confidunt in pecuniis: unde Gloffa. Qui multiplicandis divitiis incumbunt, patet quia vitae alterius gaudia quaerere contemnunt. Sed aliud est pecuniam habere, aliud amare. Multi habent, et non amant: multi non habent, et amant: alii autem et habent et amant: alii vero nec habere, nec amare se gaudent, qui certiores sunt: qui cum Apostolo dicere possunt. Mihi mundus crucifixus est, et ego mundo. Unde Salomon ait Eccles. Qui amat divitias: fructum non capiet ex eis, quia vanae sunt. Sed ipse Dominus de his verbis obstupescentibus Discipulis exponit,dicens: filioli quam difficile est confidentes in pecuniis in regnum Dei introire. Qui volunt divites fieri, incidunt in tentationem e in laqueuin Diaboli: et in tentationes multas et nociuas, quae mergunt in interitum et perditionem. Ideo dicit Psal: Divitiae si affluant, nolite cor apponere. Ibidem etiam dicit Apostolus. Praecipe divitibus non sublime sapere, nec sperare in incerto divitiarum. Isti enim funt confidentes in divitiis, et difficile est tales in regnum Dei intrare hoc modo. Sanctus Albertus Magnus, Commentarium In Evangelium Divi Marci, Caput X Source: Here p121

And Jesus looking around said to His disciples, 'How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the kingdom of God.' And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again answering, said to them, 'Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God.' 1 Consider the explanation, because those who He first spoke of having wealth He now expounds in speaking of those who trust in riches, hence the Gloss: 'Those who are burdened with an abundance of riches,' because it is manifest that they scorn the seeking of another life. It is one thing to have wealth and another thing to love it. Many have riches and do not love them, many do not have them and love them, and others have them and love them, but others rejoice in not having them and in not loving them, who are more secure, who are able to say with the Apostle, 'The world is crucified to me and I to the world.' And Solomon says in Ecclesiastes, 'He who loves riches shall gain no fruit from them, for they are vain.' 2 For the Lord Himself explains these words to the astonished disciples, saying, 'Children, how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God.' In the first letter to Timothy, 'Those who wish to be rich, they fall into temptation and in the trap of the devil,' and the temptations are many and harmful, and they drag down the soul into ruin and damnation. Therefore in the Psalm, 'If riches abound, do not set your heart on them.' Likewise the Apostle says, 'Warn the rich not to think too highly, nor to hope in the security of riches,' 3 for it is difficult for those who hope in riches to enter the kingdom of heaven.  Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Mark, Chapter 10 1 Mk 10.23-24 2 Galat 6.14, Eccles 5.9 3 1 Tim 6.9, Ps 61.11, 1 Tim 6.17