John Trapp on Proverbs 11:24

Verſ. 24. There is that ſcattereth, and yet increaſeth] Bounty is the moſt compendious way to plenty; neither is getting, but giving the beſt thrift. The five loaves in the Goſpel, by a ſtrange kinde of Arithmetick, were multiplied by Diviſion, and augmented by Subſtraction. So it will bee in this caſe.

But it tendeth to poverty] St. Auſtin deſcanting upon thoſe words, Pſal. 76.5. They have ſlept their ſleep, all the rich men, and have found nothing in their hands (for ſo hee reads that Text) And why is this? ſaith Hee, Nihil invenerunt in manibus ſuis, quia nihil poſuerunt in manu Chriſti. They found nothing in their own hands, becauſe they feared to lay up any thing in Chriſts hands. Manus pauperum gazophylacium Chriſti, ſaith another Father; The poor mans hand is Chriſts treaſury.