1142 Merely inheriting a Book, or doing lip service to it, does not make a nation righteous. If they succumb to the temptations of the world, their hypocrisy becomes all the more glaring. "High finance" is one of these temptations. Cf. also
2:80: "the Fire shall not touch us except for a few numbered days": and
2:88, about their blasphemous self-sufficiency. 1143 Cf. Exod.
19:5-8;
24:3;
39:27; and many other passages.