Beyond purchase

Meaning

The verse says that the whole world cannot pay for the art with any money. Its point is the insufficiency of purchase, not that the work entails no material expenditure: the surrounding poem locates possession in divine grace and favour and restricts the gift to those who please God. This pricelessness also differs from the treatise's modest-cost claim elsewhere. One concerns how the gift is bestowed; the other concerns expenses attributed to its earthly pursuit. The line is a religious valuation of the art, not a quoted market price or a verified promise of wealth.