JMNT(i)
19 "and then the anxieties (worries; cares; concerns; distractions) of the age, as well as the deceptive seduction of wealth (the riches) and the over-desires (or: full-rushing passions) concerning the rest – progressively making their way into [their lives and situations] – together progressively choke the Word (the thought, idea and message), and it comes to be increasingly unfruitful.