Luke 16:12

That which is another man's - Or rather another's, τῳ αλλοτριω . That is, worldly riches, called another's:

1. Because they belong to God, and he has not designed that they should be any man's portion.

Because they are continually changing their possessors, being in the way of commerce, and in providence going from one to another.

This property of worldly goods is often referred to by both sacred and profane writers. See a fine passage in Horace, Sat. l. ii. s. 2. v. 129.

Nam propriae telluris herum natura neque illum,

Nec me, nec quemquam statuit