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Mammon

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mammon (măm`ən), Aramaic term, meaning worldly riches, retained in the New Testament Greek. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon" is one of the most noted biblical strictures.
Mammon
New Testament the personification of riches and greed in the form of a false god
Mammon
avaricious fallen angel. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost]
See : Greed
Mammon
personification; one cannot serve him and God simultaneously. [N.T.: Matthew 6:24: Luke 16:9, 11, 13]
See : Money
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"Well, he thought that since he couldn't serve God and Mammon he'd better stick to Mammon," said Miss Cornelia crisply.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
We wonder how such saints can sing, Or praise the Lord upon the wing, Who roar, and scold, and whip, and sting, And to their slaves and mammon cling, In guilty conscience union.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
MAMMON led them on, MAMMON, the least erected Spirit that fell From heav'n, for ev'n in heav'n his looks & thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold, Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the Center, and with impious hands Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother Earth For Treasures better hid.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
 
 
 
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