9) :  "I  say  unto  you.  Make  to  yourselves  friends  by  means  of  the  mammon
of  unrighteousness ;  that,  when  it  shall  fail,  they  may  receive  you  into  the
eternal  tabernacles"  (Revised  Version).  Again,  "If  therefore  ye  have  not
been  £authful  in  the  unrighteous  mammon,  who  will  commit  to  your  trust  the
true  riches  ?"  (Ibid.,  verse  1 1.)  Mammon  is  also  used  as  a  designation  of  the
god  of  the  worldly  as  contrasted  with  the  God  of  Light :  "  Ye  cannot  serve

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God  and  mammon"  (Ibid.,  vetEC  13),  which  last  sentence  also  occurs  in  the
Sermon  on  ihe  MounI,  as  reporled  in  Matthew  vi.  14.  In  Ihe  Chaldee
Targums  and  Otikelos,  and  later  writers,  and  in  Ihe  Svriac  version,  the  word
mammon  is  used  wilh  the  signification  of  riches.  Medixval  writers  make
Mammon  the  chief  of  one  of  the  nine  orders  of  devils,  and  Wicrus  in  his
account  of  the  court  of  Beelzebub  makes  him  its  ambassador  to  England.
Spenser  makes  of  him  a  sort  of  Plulus,  and  has  a  wonderful  description  of
the  cave  of  Mammon  and  the  adventures  there  of  Sir  Guyon  {Faerit  Qmrmt,
Book  il,  canto  7),  and  Milton  includes  Mammon  as  one  of  the  chief  of  the
fallen  angels :


TIk  ricbcs  of  huveD  I  uvcmcni,  IraddEo  cold,
Thun  aughl  divine  >nd  holy  cIk  enjoyed.
faradisi  LasI,  Book  i.
