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Mammon you say? Hmmmm..., that´s more appliable to those trying to sell it...

...as Mammon is a Good worshipped by greedy people..., or at least that´s what Jesus Christ Himself said in that famous Sermon...

OED defines Mammon as:

Mammon
...The N. T. phrase (Eng. version ‘mammon of unrighteousness’; earlier versions, ‘mammon of iniquity’, ‘wicked mammon’, etc.) represents exactly the Aramaic mamon di-r’sha_, ‘riches or gain of wickedness’ (Targ. Hab. ii. 9), and approximately the more common mamon di-sh’qar, ‘riches of falsehood’.]

1. The Aramaic word for ‘riches’, occurring in the Greek text of Matt. vi. 24 and Luke xvi. 9­13, and retained in the Vulgate. Owing to the quasi-personification in these passages, the word was taken by mediæval writers as the proper name of the devil of covetousness. This use appears in English in the 14­16th c., and was revived by Milton (P.L. i. 678, ii. 228). The word does not occur in the N.T. translations of Wyclif and Purvey (who substitute richessis), but it was used by Tindale (1526­34) and subsequent translators, with the exception of those of the Geneva version. From the 16th c. onwards it has been current in English, usually with more or less of personification, as a term of opprobrium for wealth regarded as an idol or as an evil influence.

(OED, 2nd ed)

Amused regards

BF


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