8909. Verse 17 You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male slave nor his female slave, nor his ox nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbour's means that one must be on one's guard against self-love and love of the world, and so one must take care to prevent the evils contained in the preceding commandments from becoming present in the will and consequently going out of it.

7377. But people are not immersed in those kinds of love if they aspire to important positions not for selfish reasons but for the sake of their country, or if they aspire to wealth not for its own sake but the sake of having the necessities of life both for themselves and their dependents, and for the sake of the good use it is put to, which gives them pleasure in being wealthy. Important positions and wealth with these people are means to doing good.

7377. But people are not immersed in those kinds of love if they aspire to important positions not for selfish reasons but for the sake of their country, or if they aspire to wealth not for its own sake but the sake of having the necessities of life both for themselves and their dependents, and for the sake of the good use it is put to, which gives them pleasure in being wealthy. Important positions and wealth with these people are means to doing good.