Luke 16:13

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No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Quae cum ita se habeant, vitii erat depulsio atque expurgatio, in medium apostolorum circumactio uxoris, cujus dicebatur labor are zelotypia: et continentia a voluptatibus, quae magno studio parari solent, docebat illud, "abuti carne "hoc est, exercere carnem. Neque enim, ut existimo, volebant, convenienter Domini praecepto, "duobus dominis servire". How, then, can what relates to meat, and drink, and amorous pleasure, be agreeable to such an one? since he views with suspicion even a word that produces pleasure, and a pleasant movement and act of the mind. "For no one can serve two masters, God and Mammon"

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Clement Of Rome

AD 99

Now the Lord declares, "No servant can serve two masters.". Now the Lord declares, "No servant can serve two masters."

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

No servant can serve two masters This is added to show us, that to dispose of our riches according to the will of the Almighty, it is necessary to keep our minds free from all attachment to them. (Theophylactus) Let the avaricious man here learn, that to be a lover of riches, is to be an enemy of Christ. (Ven. Bede)

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

"But I was under contract. ""None can serve two lords.". What the two masters are who, He says, cannot be served. this sentence against them, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon.". How much more fellowship of life, and indivisible intimacy! Any and every believing woman must of necessity obey God. And how can she serve two lords

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