3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.



Ver. 3. And shall eat your flesh] i.e. With hell-fire, which shall consume your flesh, nay, your souls, with eternal torments. Some strong poison is made of the rust of metals; none worse than that of money.



For the last days] Wrath for the day of wrath; or store for old age, it being the old man’s care, as Plutarch observes, ïôé ïõê åîåé èáöïíôáò êáé èñåöïíôáò , that he shall not have what to keep him while alive, and what to bury him honestly when dead.