| 词汇 | mammon |
| 词源 | mammon; the mammon of unrighteousness. Mammon be- came the personification of greed or a passion for money, the god of this world, only in medieval times. In the Bible the word (from the Syriac mamuna) means riches or gain, as in “Ye can- not serve God and mammon” (Matt. 6:24) or “The mammon of unrighteousness” (Luke 16:9). In Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610), Sir Epicure Mammon is a worldly sensualist, a greedy, voluptuous knight who is conned by the alchemist. |
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