The too ardent love or self-willed desire of power, or wealth, or
credit in the world, is (an Apostle has assured us) Idolatry. Now
among the words or synonimes for idols, in the Hebrew language, there
is one that in its primary sense signifies _troubles_ (_tegirim_),
other two that signify _terrors_ (_miphletzeth_ and _emim_). And so it
is certainly. All our idols prove so to us. They fill us with nothing
but anguish and troubles, with cares and fears, that are good for
nothing but to be fit punishments of the folly, out of which they
arise.