The Mammon in the New Testament of the Bible is generally considered to mean money, material wealth, or any other entity that promises wealth, and is associated with a voracious profit pursuit. "You can not serve God and mammon."
In the Middle Ages was often personified as a god and sometimes included in the seven princes of Hell. Mammon is a Hebrew word ???? and that means "money". Mammon is the god of material things.
Video Mammon
Etimologi
The word Mammon goes into the English of post-classical Latin mammona 'wealth', is used most importantly in the Vulgate Bible (along with the Tertullian mammon and pseudo-Jerome's mammon ). This in turn was borrowed from Hellenistic Greek ???????, which appears in the New Testament, borrowed from the Aramaic. ???????? m? m? n? , the strict form of the word m? m? n 'wealth, profit', perhaps specifically from the Syriac dialect. However, it is unclear what the early history of the Aramaic form was. The word may have existed throughout Canaanite: it is not known in the Hebrew Old Testament, but it has been found in the Qumran document; the Hebrew post-biblical statement for m? m? n ; and, according to St. Augustine of Hippo, Punic includes the word mammon 'profit'. It has been argued that the Aramaic word is m? M? N is a loan word from Mishnaic Hebrew ???? (mamÃÆ'Â'n) which means money, wealth, or property; although it may also mean "in whom the believer".
According to the Textus Receptus of the New Testament, the Greek word translated "Mammon" is spelled ??????? in the Sermon on the Mount in Matt. 6:24, and ?????? (from ???????) in the parable of an Inappropriate Official in Luke 16: 9,11,13. The 27th edition of the popular Critical Text of the New Testament has a ?????? in all four places without any indication of any textual variation, thereby ignoring the reading of the Textus Receptus in Matt. 6:24. Liddell and Scott Lexicon have a list for every spelling, showing that each exists only in the New Testament, there is no other place in ancient Greek and Hellenistic literature. Spelling ??????? refers to "the god of Syria, the god of wealth; therefore wealth, wealth"; ??????? transliterated from Aramaic [????] and also means "wealth." The Official Version uses "Mammon" for both Greek spellings; John Wycliffe uses richessis .
The Standardized Modified Version of the Bible describes it as "the Semitic word for money or wealth". The International Children Bible (ICB) uses the words "You can not serve God and money at the same time".
Christians began to use mammon as something degrading, a term used to describe greed, excessive materialism, greed, and unfair worldly gains.
Lying not for treasures on earth, where moths and rust have been broken, and where thieves break through and steal: But lie down for you treasure in heaven, where moths or rust do not spoil, and where thieves do not penetrate or steal: where your treasure is, there will be your heart too. No one can serve two masters: because he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold that one, and hate the other. You can not serve God and mammon.
mentions the beginning of Mamon alluding to the Gospels, for example, Didascalia , " Mamon thinking of the land, the bag of God " and Saint Augustine, " gain is Mamon " ( ch. on Mount, ii).
personification
Gregory of Nyssa also confirmed that Mammon is another name for Beelzebub.
In the 4th century Cyprian and Jerome connect mammons with greed and greed as enslaved monster, and John Chrysostom even symbolizes mammon as greed.
During the Middle Ages, Mammon was generally personified as a demon of wealth and greed. So Peter Lombard (II, dist 6) says, "Wealth is called by the name of the devil, that is Mammon, because Mammon is the name of the devil, where the name of wealth is called according to the Syriac language." Piers Plowman also considers Mammon as a god. Nicholas de Lyra, commenting on the inside of Luke, says: " Mammon est nomen daemonis " (Mammon is the name of the devil).
Albert Barnes in his book The New Testament states that Mammon is a Suryani word for idols worshiped as a god of wealth, similar to Plutus among the Greeks, but he does not mention authority for the statement.
There is no trace, however, of any Syrian deity such a name exists, and the identification of the general literature of the name with the god of greed or greed may come from Spenser The Faerie Queene , in which Mammon oversees the cave of worldly riches. Milton Paradise Lost describes a fallen angel who appreciates worldly possessions over all other things. The later occult writings such as Jacques Collin de Plancy Dictionnaire Infernal describe Mammon as the ambassador of hell for England. For Thomas Carlyle in Past and Present, the "Gospel of Mammonism" became merely a metaphorical personification for the materialist spirit of the 19th century.
Mammon is somewhat similar to the Greek god of Plutus, and Roman Dis Pater, in his depiction, and the possibility that he is at a point based on them; especially since Plutus appears in The Divine Comedy as a witch-like demon, the wolf has been associated with greed in the Middle Ages. Thomas Aquinas metaphorically describes sin Greed as "Mammons brought from Hell by wolf, come to stir up human hearts with Greed".
Under the influence of the Social Gospel movement, American populist, progressive and "dirt borer" during the 1880-1925 generations used "Mammon" with special reference to the consolidated wealth and strength of the banking and corporate institutions headquartered on Wall Street and those activities that national character.
Maps Mammon
In different countries
- "Mamona" (sometimes "Mamuna") is a synonym for mammon among Slavs. Today, the word "mamona" is used figuratively and does not make sense in Polish as a synonym of money. In Slovak, the word
- The word "mammona" is used quite often in Finnish and Estonian as a synonym of material wealth.
- In German, the word "Mammon" is the everyday term for "money."
In popular culture
Various characters and demons are named Mammon in books, movies, TV, anime, and video games.
See also
- Asketisisme
- The Christian demon in popular culture
- The Christian view of poverty and wealth
- evangelical counsel
- The Jewish view of poverty, wealth, and charity
- Theology of prosperity
- Seven deadly sins
- Oath of poverty
References
External links
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Mammon
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Mamon
- EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica: Mammon
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments