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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 530 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAMMON , a word of Aramaic origin meaning " riches." The See also:

etymology is doubtful; connexions with a word meaning " en-trusted," or with the See also:Hebrew matmon, treasure, have been suggested. "Mammon," Gr. µaµwvas (see See also:Professor Eb. Nestle in Ency. Bib. s.v.), occurs in the See also:Sermon on the See also:Mount (Matt. Vi. 24) and the See also:parable of the Unjust Steward (See also:Luke xvi. 9-13). The Authorized Version keeps the See also:Syriac word. Wycliffe uses " richessis." The New See also:English See also:Dictionary quotes Piers Plowman as containing the earliest personification of the name. Nicholaus de See also:Lyra (commenting on the passage in Luke) says that Mammon est nomen daemonis. There is no trace, however, of any Syriac See also:god of such a name, and the See also:common See also:identification of the name with a god of covetousness or avarice is chiefly due to See also:Milton (See also:Paradise Lost, i.

678).

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