He has a tremendous amount of power and authority. That type of person, once his name becomes known, will lose his name. In other words, he’ll die before his time. When a person has such power and authority, usually he’s going to become haughty and arrogant, use his power incorrectly, and this is going to lead to his death. So power and a popular name are negative things, and therefore that person is going to pass away before the proper time.
Somebody who doesn’t increase his learning of Torah is going to lose his knowledge of it. Torah study is not something that, once I know it, I retain and remember. But if I don’t continuously try to sharpen my mind, learn more Torah, and add to it, then the Torah that I already have in my mind is going to be lost. But somebody who doesn’t learn Torah at all is deserving of death. Human beings—Bnei Yisrael—are the only people in the world who were commanded to learn Torah. The whole world was created for the purposes of Talmud Torah (Torah study). So if a person doesn’t take advantage of this privilege, of the gift that Hashem gave him, he doesn’t deserve to exist. So therefore, this person is—he’s deserving of death.
This person is worse than the person who doesn’t continue to learn. The original person we mentioned has Torah knowledge, and he may have gotten lazy. But he did learn at some point. But this person who doesn’t study Torah at all just focused on Olam HaZeh (this world). He really is not taking advantage of the purpose of life, and therefore there’s no purpose in his life.
U'de-ishtamesh be-taga chalaf. Somebody who uses the crown of Torah for his own glory, for his own gain, is going to pass away. The crown of Torah is somebody who worked very hard at Torah and has a tremendous amount of Torah knowledge, but is taking the status that they have as a Talmid Chacham (Torah scholar) and using it improperly to gain the Olam HaZeh in this world, so they’ll also die in a way. They’re going to die early and pass away before their proper time.