Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Ver. 3. The house of my God.] His interest in God, and love to his house, made him thus liberal. He could have found in his heart to have done as Tithonus and his son Memnon are said by Cassiodorus a to have done, in building of the city Susa in Persia: they joined the stones together with gold.
I have of mine own proper good.] Ex meo peculio, Out of my cabinet cash.
Which I have given.] Love is liberal: woe to Church robbers.
a Lib. vii. var. Epist.