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Riches (ho ploutos). Masculine singular, but occasionally neuter to ploutos in nominative and accusative (2Co 8:2). Apparently pleotos fulness (from pleos full, pimplēmi to fill). “Wealth.”
Are corrupted (sesēpen). Second perfect active indicative of sēpō (root sap as in sapros, rotten), to corrupt, to destroy, here intransitive “has rotted.” Only here in N.T. On the worthlessness of mere wealth see Mat 6:19, Mat 6:24.
Were moth-eaten (sētobrōta gegonen). “Have become (second perfect indicative of ginomai, singular number, though himatia, neuter plural, treated collectively) moth-eaten” (sētobrōta, late and rare compound from sēs, moth, Mat 6:19. and brōtos, verbal adjective of bibrōskō to eat Joh 6:13. This compound found only here, Job 13:28, Sibyll. Orac. Proem. 64). Rich robes as heirlooms, but moth-eaten. Vivid picture. Witness the 250 “lost millionaires” in the United States in 1931 as compared with 1929. Riches have wings.