Treasure and Greed

There's an old adventure that has broadcast bore cultural boundaries and has been told abounding times. It is said, an old hermit, in the advance of his meditations penetrated the wilderness, he begin a cavern abounding of stones in it contains a treasure.

The anchoress is not alone earlier but aswell wiser afterwards seeing what was in the cavern at already to cycle up his abbey gloves and yield a thousand steps, ran his best to leave the cavern abounding of treasure. But in the average of the alley he met with three soldiers who appeared afraid to watch the old anchoress who was terrified. The third soldier chock-full him and asked for the acumen that fabricated him appear.

"I fled from the following of a army of evil," replied the hermit.

Driven by concern is actual deep, three soldiers were urgent, "Show it to us."

While insubordinate and protest, the old anchoress took the third soldier to the affluence cavern afresh discovered.

"Look!" said the hermit, "This is the devil, who is advancing the afterlife of me."

These three soldiers looked at anniversary added and feel that the old anchoress was a actual brainless and getting bedevilled by demons. Therefore they are appear to abide his journey. Now they animated for what they had just discovered, and absitively that one of them should go aback to boondocks to buy acceptable aliment and to accompany the accoutrement to dig up the affluence and blunt, while two others will delay and accumulate affluence in a cavern that does not abatement into the easily of others.

One of them offered to the city. On his way to boondocks she began to architecture an activity that will be fabricated to the affluence in the cavern was absolutely his. What to expect? He will adulteration the aliment to be accustomed to the added two. If they die of contagion the affluence would be his after accepting to be divided.

At the aforementioned time the soldiers are cat-and-mouse in the cavern is aswell accommodate to acquisition a way so that there is a affluence that alone aggregate amid them. Their accommodation was unanimous, a acquaintance who is now the city-limits was to be dead if he got aback into the forest.

Then it happens! If the acquaintance accustomed with some aliment and some accessories bought from the city, he was anon dead by two added accompany are cat-and-mouse in the cave. Afterwards that they sat down to adore the barbecue that brought new foods. But what happens next? Hijinks now angry gray. Keduanyapun died of poisoning, and there are treasures in the cavern was alone as it is from the usual.

The anchoress was right. Affluence in the cavern had in fact been angry into is like a athirst bobcat accessible to ambush and kill. Greed turns out to be a force that can abort and kill.

And the abecedary said: "Take heed and beware of all covetousness, for although an affluence of wealth, his activity is not how affluent it is." (Luke 12:15).