Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 38.2
Anf-02 vi.iv.vii.xii Pg 14.2
Anf-03 iv.iv.xii Pg 11
Matt. vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.
If you wish to be the Lord’s disciple, it is necessary you “take your cross, and follow the Lord:”247 247
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiii Pg 3
Luke xvi. 13.
on the ground that while one is pleased4773 4773 Defendi.
the other must needs be displeased,4774 4774 Offendi.
He Himself makes clear, when He mentions God and mammon. Then, if you have no interpreter by you, you may learn again from Himself what He would have understood by mammon.4775 4775
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiii Pg 11
Luke xvi. 13.
Then the Pharisees, who were covetous of riches, derided Him, when they understood that by mammon He meant money. Let no one think that under the word mammon the Creator was meant, and that Christ called them off from the service of the Creator. What folly! Rather learn therefrom that one God was pointed out by Christ. For they were two masters whom He named, God and mammon—the Creator and money. You cannot indeed serve God—Him, of course whom they seemed to serve—and mammon to whom they preferred to devote themselves.4781 4781 Magis destinabantur: middle voice.
If, however, he was giving himself out as another god, it would not be two masters, but three, that he had pointed out. For the Creator was a master, and much more of a master, to be sure,4782 4782 Utique.
than mammon, and more to be adored, as being more truly our Master. Now, how was it likely that He who had called mammon a master, and had associated him with God, should say nothing of Him who was really the Master of even these, that is, the Creator? Or else, by this silence respecting Him did He concede that service might be rendered to Him, since it was to Himself alone and to mammon that He said service could not be (simultaneously) rendered? When, therefore, He lays down the position that God is one, since He would have been sure to mention4783 4783 Nominaturus.
the Creator if He were Himself a rival4784 4784 Alius.
to Him, He did (virtually) name the Creator, when He refrained from insisting”4785 4785 Quem non posuit.
that He was Master alone, without a rival god. Accordingly, this will throw light upon the sense in which it was said, “If ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?”4786 4786
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 16
VERSE (13) - Lu 9:50; 11:23 Jos 24:15 Mt 4:10; 6:24 Ro 6:16-22; 8:5-8 Jas 4:4
