Mammon
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
mammon · the mammon of injustice · the men of mammon
in the texts
Protrepticus
Wealth personified as a false master opposed to God.
" With money the bastard, who is the child of destruction, shall buy — he who has chosen to serve mammon;
Adversus Marcionem
Money and worldly wealth, personified as a rival master to God.
For admonishing us, concerning worldly things, to provide for ourselves the supports of friendships, after the example of that servant who, removed from his office, relieves his master's debtors by diminishing their bonds, for a help to himself, "And I," he says, "say to you, make for yourselves friends out of the mammon of injustice" — out of money, namely, like that servant.
De Fuga in Persecutione
Worldly wealth, the subject of the saying about making friends through unrighteous mammon, interpreted via parable.
"Make to yourselves friends of mammon"—how this is to be understood, let the parable set before it teach you.