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MA-muhn
noun
material wealth; riches; a false god from the old Christian testament; the god of wealth
1651LeviathanThe sixth place is Luke, 16. 9: 'Make ye friends of the unrighteous mammon, that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting tabernacles.' This he alleges to prove invocation of saints departed. But the sense is plain, that we should make friends, with our riches, of the poor; and thereby obtain their prayers whilst they live. 'He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.'1849Yeast: A ProblemIn God's name, if the Stock Exchange, and railway stagging, and the advertisements in the Protestant Hue-and-Cry, and the frantic Mammon-hunting which has been for the last fifty years the peculiar pursuit of the majority of Quakers, Dissenters, and Religious Churchmen, are not The World, what is? 1955Augustine: Confessions and EnchiridionNor can that possibly be void which was uttered by the mouth of Thy truth: 'If, therefore, you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?'1991Barton FinkMAYHEW: Why thank you, son, how kind. Bein' occupied here in the worship of Mammon, I haven't had the chance yet to see your play…Labels: Charles Kingsley, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Saint Augustine, Thomas Hobbes
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