What does "purchase with it a cheap price" mean?

[glorytothegracious]

2174 Surely, those who conceal what God has sent down of the book, and purchase with it a cheap price; they will not eat into their stomachs except the fire, and God will not speak to them on the day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them, and they will have a painful retribution.

I have the thought that it might not be literal, but that it might be saying not to think of the Qur'an as something you would expect to pay only a small amount of money for, so look at the Qur'an in a high manner, or something similar to that. So it might mean not to disregard the Qur'an or reject it. Or it could simply mean something like do not charge people to learn about the Qur'an?

Please share your opinions. Peace D

[Wakas]

peace,

The word "purchase" is perhaps more correctly "exchange/trade", but in any case, if one exchanges/trades/sells something very valuable for something less valuable, then clearly one has lost out - that is what I take form it.