76. The love of the world, however, is wanting to direct to oneself by any device other people's wealth, setting one's heart on being rich, and allowing the world to withdraw one and lead one away from spiritual love, that is, love towards the neighbour, and so away from heaven. Those in a state of love of the world are those who desire to direct to themselves other people's goods by various devices, especially by trickery and deceit, paying no heed to the good of the neighbour. Those who are in that state covet others' goods, and so far as they are not afraid of laws and losing their reputation for the sake of gain, they take them away from them, or rather loot them.