Thrift

Some feel that concern over economics is not Christian "For the love of money is the root of all evil ..." 1 Timothy 6:10.  We are told not to worry and fret over our daily bread.


But a healthy attitude toward money is not un-Christian.  Money is merely a tool.  Hard work, saving, and proper stewardship of our money have always been encouraged in the Christian community.  We are told that "he that gathereth by labour shall increase." Proverbs 13:11


What is important is to remember that "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts." Haggai 2:8.  Our finances, just as the rest of our life, should be at the disposal of the Lord.

Translation

"Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light, that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water."  Miles Smith  (1554-1624)

MIles Smith was a strict Calvinist and in 1612 became the Bishop of Gloucester.  He was what we in America would call a "library rat,"always found around the books, described as "covetous of nothing but books."

Smith was a member of the First Oxford Company of translators of the KIng James Version of the BIble.  The First Oxford Company translated Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Malachi.  The quotation above comes from the Preface, which Smith wrote.