Arnobius the Younger: Use your riches to bless others while you can!

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“All those great, wise and outspoken will die, not only the foolish and those who gather riches. They are unwilling to have mercy on the ones in need, and they leave their riches behind for others. Although they have many houses, their tombs are their house for eternity. Wretched person. He does not understand that while he is in this body he begins to die.” (cf. Psalm 49:10-12).

For all can see that wise men die; the foolish and the senseless alike perish and leave their wealth to others. Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves. But man, despite his riches, does not endure; he is like the beasts that perish. Psalm 49:10-12

Arnobius the Younger (c. 460) in Commentary on the Psalms 49, CCL 25:69.