О том, что страждущие при жизни беспечностнои во время кончины, вместо того чтобы позаботиться о самих себе,прилагают старание о том, как передать имение свое наследникам

Many, without paying any attention to this, make wills in favor of relatives, in writing dishonoring their foolishness and believing that in trusteeship they should prefer others to themselves. Although the law of nature has brought children closer to their parents, the desire for salvation teaches everyone to have greater concern for themselves, bringing to mind the time of judgment, in which everyone listens with horror to their own verdict, not expecting help from anywhere if their deeds are bad. “As I live, says... the Lord”: if Daniel and Job are there, “they will deliver neither their sons nor their daughters, but these alone will be saved” (cf. Ezek. 14:18), but the sinner will die in his sin. But these unshakable in carelessness about themselves, even having learned that no one has help from anyone and that everyone is saved or perishes for his own deeds, leaving care for himself and, as if they already belonged to the number of those being saved, having ceased to care about this, they make efforts to transfer the property to the heirs, who, of course, show despondency on their sad faces, but inwardly with a cheerful disposition they think about pleasure abandoned. And these heirs, after burial, rejoice, sated with what they have collected from the labors of others, and those who collected, with the incessant torment of punishment, indulge in truly gloomy despondency. You might be interested in: