THEOSISJerome of Stridon
Their silver will be cast into the streets and their gold will be treated as refuse. LXX: Their silver will be dumped into the streets and their gold will be disregarded. Due to panic and captivity, vast amounts of wealth, including significant quantities of gold and silver, will be discarded, as individuals will prioritize saving their lives over possessions, reducing once-coveted items to burdens. In a profound way, all the silver of those taken captive and those fleeing from Jerusalem will be thrown out onto the broad road leading to destruction, having abandoned the narrow way of salvation. Likewise, all gold will be disregarded and viewed as worthless. For those outside the body of Christ lack true purity.
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Their silver and gold will not be of much use to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. This stands in contrast to the Seventy. Indeed, it is evident that the sharpest teeth biting into the most precious treasure are repelled just as they are by the hardest stone. Thus, it is said, They shall not satisfy their souls nor fill their bellies. From the current tribulations, we observe how the wealthy, amidst their fine wines, jewels, and abundant gold and silver, are afflicted by poverty and meet the same fate as the less fortunate. The riches of those who stand outside the Church do not redeem souls when the Lord’s judgment comes; instead, they experience everlasting hunger and suffer the distress of emptiness, as expressed in the saying: the deliverance of a man's soul comes through his wealth (Proverbs 13:8). This wealth is the very matter of which Christ's truth has spoken to us (Luke 16), instructing us to use unrighteous riches to secure friendships that might welcome us into eternal dwellings. For it served as the root of their wrongdoing. Thus, he states, those who possess gold and silver will not find satisfaction for their souls nor fullness for their bellies, for this very wealth has become the source of their iniquity. He directs attention to the idols crafted from gold and silver, which bring condemnation upon those who created them. In place of this, LXX: translated: for there was torment with their iniquities, that the lawless might be tormented by their error and realize their transgressions, turning God's gifts into blasphemy.