Show FILTHY LUCRE the word lucre originally meant riches profit in no III sense as aa its derivative still means merely yielding profit without un favorable implications but filthy luere lucre has all the implications of all the ills that were ever caused by or for money this we have from the bible in the first epistle of paul the apostle to timothy telling how bow bishops and deacons and their wives should be qualified we find IA A bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous kansas city times |