What is the best for you? - Douma on the 10th Commandment

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J. Douma The Ten Commandments, pg. 345:

There is no objection against striving for a better position. But there is an unchristian chasing after affluence, the kind that leaves us constantly looking with a jaundiced eye at what somebody else has (more than we have). In contrast to this, the starting point of the ten commandment is very simply this: Your own house is the best one for you, your own spouse is the most pretty or handsome for you, in your own job is the most fruitful development of your abilities, even though your house may be smaller than your neighbors, that your wife may be less attractive than other women, that your job may rank lower on the scale of values than those of your friends and acquaintances, and so on.
 
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