“Therefore, to conclude, if you are perfect, why do you long for your hereditary goods? If you are not perfect, you have deceived the Lord. The Gospel thunders in divine accents: You cannot serve two masters (Mt 6:24); and does anyone dare make Christ a liar by serving mammon and the Lord? He often cries: if anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me (Mt. 16:24). Do I, when laden with gold, think I am following Christ? He that saith he abideth in Christ ought himself also to walk even as he walked (1 Jn. 2:6).”
The Letters of St. Jerome 14.5