MammonEarthly goods; property; riches.No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the o...
No man can serve two masters (oudei dunatai dusi kurioi douleuein). Many try it, but failure awaits them all. Men even try to be slaves to God and ma...
MAMMON mam'-un (Mamonas): A common Aramaic word (mamon) for riches, used in Matthew 6:24 and in Luke 16:9,11,13. In these passages mammon merely mean...
Overview - Matthew 6 1?Christ continues his sermon on the mount, exhorting not to be careful for worldly things, 33?but to seek God's kingdom. Treasur...
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters Whose orders are directly contrary to one another: otherwise, if they were the same, or agreed, both might b...
Get thee hence, Satan (Hupage, Satana). The words behind me (opisw mou) belong to Matthew 16:23 , not here. Begone Christ says to Satan. This tempta...
Overview - Luke 16 1?The parable of the unjust steward. 14?Christ reproves the hypocrisy of the covetous Pharisees. 19?The parable of the rich man and...
Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him The copulative and, is left out in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions: no man having put his h...
1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils, &c.] Not only they ought not, but they could not rightly, truly, and r...
Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, it [is] vain to serve God This they said in their hearts, if not with their lips, that it was a vain thing for a man to ser...
-. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. (A Mountain Plateau not far from Capernaum.)Subdivision F.SECURITY OF HEAVENLY TREASURES CONTRASTED WITH EARTHLY ANXIE...
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, &c.] Since ye cannot serve both God and mammon, obey one, and neglect the other....
Sermon LXIII [CXIII. Ben.]Sermon LXIII [CXIII. Ben.] On the words of the gospel, Luke xvi. 9, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unr...
Chapter?12 Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed. (1-4) The place of God's service to be kept. (5-32) Verses 1-4 Moses comes to the statutes h...
Chapter 1616:1 And he said also unto his disciples, 1 There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had...
2 Timothy 2:4 No man that warreth Who is a soldier, and gives himself up to military service, in a literal sense: the Vulgate Latin version, without a...
1 John 2:15 Love not the world The habitable earth, the world in which men live; this is not to be loved by saints, as if it was their habitation, whe...
Psalms 2:11 Serve the Lord with fear Not the creature, neither more, nor besides, nor with the Creator; God and mammon cannot both be served; nor any ...
Chapter?31 Jacob departs secretly. (1-21) Laban pursues Jacob. (23-35) Jacob's complaint of Laban's conduct. (36-42) Their covenant at Galeed. (43-55...
Chapter?24This chapter concludes the life and reign of Joshua, in which we have, I. The great care and pains he took to confirm the people of Israel i...