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21. μὴ … πλουτῶν. ‘If he is not rich.’ We are often taught elsewhere in Scripture in what way we can be rich toward God. Mat 6:19-21; 1Ti 6:17-19; Jam 2:5. There is a close parallel to this passage in Sir 11:18-19, “There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this is the portion of his reward. Likewise he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat continually of my goods, and yet he knoweth not what time shall come upon him, and that he must leave those things to others, and die.” This would seem to shew that our Lord was not unfamiliar with some of the Apocryphal writings.