Reference: Mammon
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A Chaldee word signifying riches. Our Savior says we cannot serve God and Mammon, Mt 6:24. Wealth is as truly an idol to those who set their hearts on it, as Jupiter or Diana; and no idolater can enter heaven. He also charges us, from the example of the unjust steward, so to use worldly goods, which are generally sought and used sinfully - "the unrighteous mammon" - as to have God the Judge our friend, and receive the true riches in heaven, Lu 16:9,11.
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And I say unto you, Make yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon that when ye fail, they may receive you into the eternal mansions.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with the true?
Easton
a Chaldee or Syriac word meaning "wealth" or "riches" (Lu 16:9-11); also, by personification, the god of riches (Mt 6:24; Lu 16:9-11).
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And I say unto you, Make yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon that when ye fail, they may receive you into the eternal mansions.
And I say unto you, Make yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon that when ye fail, they may receive you into the eternal mansions. He that is faithful in the least thing, is faithful also in much: and he who is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.
He that is faithful in the least thing, is faithful also in much: and he who is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with the true?
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with the true?
Fausets
Mt 6:24; Lu 16:9. A Punic (Augustine) or Syriac (Jerome) word for "riches". Personified as a heart idol.
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Hastings
This is a Semitic word, but of doubtful derivation. It has been referred to Heb. aman, 'a reliable (store),' and to taman (t being elided), 'hidden treasure.' Augustine (Serm. on Mount) says it was the name for 'riches' among the Hebrews, and that the Ph
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And I say unto you, Make yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon that when ye fail, they may receive you into the eternal mansions.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with the true?
No domestic can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will cleave to the one, and neglect the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.
Morish
Mam'mon
An Aramaic word signifying 'riches.' It is personified as a 'master' in Mt 6:24; Lu 16:13; "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." In Lu 16:9, it is called 'unrighteous mammon' (as appertaining to this world in which the rights of God to all have been refused) in opposition to true riches, which appertain to the world to come.
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And I say unto you, Make yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon that when ye fail, they may receive you into the eternal mansions.
No domestic can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will cleave to the one, and neglect the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Smith
(riches)
Mt 6:24; Lu 16:9
a word which often occurs in the Chaldee Terguma of Onkelos and later writers, and in the Syriac version, and which signifies "riches." It is used in St. Matthew as a personification of riches.
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Watsons
MAMMON, a Syriac word which signifies riches, Mt 6:24.
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.