• The Phrygian king, who, for his hospitality to Silenus, was endowed by Bacchus with the fatal power of turning all he touched to gold. The most laughable thing about him was his wearing ass’s ears, as a punishment for preferring the music of Pan to that of Apollo. Ovid, XI , Croxall’s Tr. :⁠— “Pan tuned the pipe, and with his rural song Pleased the low taste of all the vulgar throng; Such songs a vulgar judgment mostly please: Midas was there, and Midas judged with these.” See also Hawthorne’s story of “The Golden Touch” in his Wonder-Book . ↩
• Joshua 7:21:⁠— “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.” ↩
• Acts 5:1, 2:⁠— “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” ↩