From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. Jeremiah 6:13
“Don’t be sparing of transitory treasures, of vain wealth. Don’t increase your money under the guise of family piety. “I’m saving it for my children”; a marvelous excuse! He’s saving it for his children. Let’s see, shall we? Your Father saves it for you, you save it for your children, your children for their children, and so on through the generations, and no one of them is going to carry out the commandments of God. Why don’t you rather pay it all over to Him who made you out of nothing? The One who made you is the One who feeds you with the things he made; He is the one who also feeds your children. You don’t, after all, do better by entrusting your sons to patrimony for support, than to your Creator. Any anyhow, people are just lying. Avarice is evil. They want to cover up and whitewash themselves with a name for family piety so that they may appear to be saving up for their children what in fact they are saving up for avarice.”
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, (354-430) Sermon 9.20 trans. Daniel Doyle and Edmund Hill (New York: New City Press, 2007).