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Glossa Ordinaria: By mammon is meant the Devil, who is the lord of money, not that he can bestow them unless where God wills, but because by means of them he deceives men. [ 6 ] Augustine : Whoso serves mammon, (that is, riches,) verily serves him, who, being for desert of his perversity set over these things of earth, is called by the Lord ...
A satan is involved in King David's census and Christian teachings about this satan varies, just as the pre-exilic account of 2 Samuel and the later account of 1 Chronicles present differing perspectives: And again the anger of the L ORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them, saying: 'Go, number Israel and Judah.'
"Christ either deceived mankind by conscious fraud, or He was Himself deluded and self-deceived, or He was Divine. There is no getting out of this trilemma. It is inexorable." [4] J. Gresham Machen used a similar line of argument in fifth chapter of his famous work Christianity and Liberalism (1923). There, Machen says:
Augustine: Hereto it also pertains that we be not deceived by the name of Christ not only in such as bear the name and do not the deeds, but yet more by certain works and miracles, such as the Lord wrought because of the unbelieving, but yet warned us that we should not be deceived by such to suppose that there was invisible wisdom where was a visible miracle; wherefore He adds, saying, Many ...
Satan, [a] also known as the Devil (cf. a devil), [b] is an entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism , Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God , typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara , or 'evil inclination'.
When interpreting Exodus 22:18, [10] he stated that, with the help of the devil, witches could steal milk merely by thinking of a cow. [11] In his Small Catechism, he taught that witchcraft was a sin against the second commandment [12] and prescribed the Biblical penalty for it in a "table talk":
Caption reads: "Don't frighten us Pope, with your ban, and don't be such a furious man. Otherwise we shall turn around and show you our rears." [61] [62] Passional Christi und Antichristi, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, from Luther's 1521 Passionary of the Christ and Antichrist. [63] The Pope as the Antichrist, signing and selling indulgences.
Matthew 6:13 is the thirteenth verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, and forms part of the Sermon on the Mount.This verse is the fifth and final one of the Lord's Prayer, one of the best known parts of the entire New Testament.