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Jesus' point is simply to show us what money is really for. Typically we think of ourselves first when we answer that question. But Jesus invites us to realize that, first, our money isn't really ours -- we're simply managing it for its real owner, God. Second, even "filthy lucre" can be pressed into the service of God and our neighbor.
"Unrighteous mammon" (Greek: του μαμωνα της αδικιας, tou mamōna tēs adikias) refers to wealth, or "money" in paraphrases such as that of J. B. Phillips, [9] although the debts which had been written down in verses 6 and 7 had been expressed as debts payable in measures of oil and wheat. [10]
No one can serve two masters: for either they will hate the one, and love the other; or else they will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:9–13 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Early mentions of Mammon allude to the Gospels, e.g., Didascalia, "De solo Mammona cogitant, quorum Deus est sacculus" (lit. They think only of Mammon, whose God is the purse); and Saint Augustine, "Lucrum Punice Mammon dicitur" (lit. "Riches is called Mammon by the Phoenicians" (Sermon on the Mount, ii).
The Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible explains "mammon is a Semetic word for money or riches." [ref>Bible - Revised Standard Verion (RSV), footnotes p6 NT Mt 6:24, Melton Book Company, 1971</ref] The International Children's Bible (ICB) uses the wording, "You cannot serve God and money at the same time."
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