<p>18:26 <i>And they that heard it said: Then who can be saved?</i>- They were really so shocked (Mt.) that wealth made it hard to enter the Kingdom, implying they were strongly persuaded that wealth was a gift from God and a sign of His approval of a man. This of course was quite foreign to the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount and other teaching of the Lord, and so we see how far they had been from understanding His most basic teachings. </p><p>&quot;Can be...&quot; translates the same word the Lord uses in the next verse to say that with God, even the saving of the wealthy who don't quit their wealth is &quot;possible&quot;- on the basis, therefore, of His willingness to accept a lower standard of achievement to that He ideally requires.</p>