2.  Here then it is further required, that each of you be found faithful in his conscience:  for a faithful man it is hard to find Prov. xx. 6.:  not that thou shouldest shew thy conscience to me, for thou art not to be judged of man’s judgment 1 Cor. iv. 3.  See Index, Confession.; but that thou shew the sincerity of thy faith to God, who trieth the reins and hearts Ps. vii. 9., and knoweth the thoughts of men Ps. xciv. 11..  A great thing is a faithful man, being richest of all rich men.  For to the faithful man belongs the whole world of wealth This sentence is a spurious addition to the text of the Septuagint, variously placed after Prov. xvii. 4, and xvii. 6.  The thought is there completed by the antithesis, but to the faithless not even an obol.  The origin of the interpolation is unknown., in that he disdains and tramples on it.  For they who in appearance are rich, and have many possessions, are poor in soul:  since the more they gather, the more they pine with longing for what is still lacking.  But the faithful man, most strange paradox, in poverty is rich:  for knowing that we need only to have food and raiment, and being therewith content 1 Tim. vi. 8., he has trodden riches under foot.