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1 Dominus praedicat coram multis populis, how to confess him, and how we should beware of false doctrine. And we have three sayings, so that we do not get carried away with food: 1. No one lives.
that it is sufficient for him. 1) 2. qui colligit opes, fiet ei sicut stulto diviti. 3) Ubi thesaurus, ibi cor tuum. These three sayings teach
1) This refers to Luc. 12, 15: "No one lives by having many goods.
*This sermon, like the previous one, belongs to the twenty-one sermons from the library of St. Andrew's Church in Eisleben. In the collections: in the Gallic volume, p. 383; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XII, p. 591 and in the Erlanger, I. Aufl., vol. 18, p. 29; 2. Aufl., vol. 19, p. 322. We give the text after Walch, uuter Vergleichung der Erlanger.
We are told what God means by food and goods. What a man has more abundance than what belongs to his daily custom, that is mammon, and not his food: that God will count as if it were done to His contempt. Sicut Matthaei 6, 26. 28.: Passeres non arant, non horreum habent, tamen cibat eos; sic de liliis, pulchre vestita sunt. Therefore, what a man has left over (above) daily food is not good, but an idol, and his heart is weighed down with food. Therefore the same is a blasphemer who does not trust God so much 2c. So Christ admonishes us here to look to Him alone and wait, and we will have enough temporally and eternally when we sit in readiness.