“The world of the fall, however, is one in which this constant reference to God is banished from the equation. Creation is there to satisfy my wants…[The Fathers] regarded greed as a grave spiritual sickness, whether its object was money, possessions, or luxuries of various kinds…the form of idolatry”
(St John Damascene, Theokritoff 89)

J.C. Dahl (1788-1857), Plauenscher Grund ved Dresden, 1818