Because it is so common;
Because it is found among those who make pretensions to refinement and even religion;
Because it is not so easy to define what is covetousness, as it is to define impurity of life;
Because the public conscience is seared, and the mind blinded to the low and grovelling character of the sin.
Albert Barnes Notes Explanatory and Practical on the Epistles (New York: Harper Brothers, 1845) 317.