Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Ver. 19. Laying up in store] As wise merchants, happy usurers, parting with that which they cannot keep, that they may gain that which they cannot lose.
On eternal life] Or, as some copies have it, "Of life indeed," της οντως ζωης. Aeterna vita, vera vita. (Augustine.)