Prosperity and the Wicked (3)

We have succeeded in discovering the relation be­tween the prosperity of the wicked and their pride and rebellion. Prosperity worketh pride and rebellion. So the Scriptures do assert, "For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked …. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them about as a garment" (Ps. 73). "I have nour­ished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me" (Isaiah 1:2). This phenomena, which the above Scriptures...