Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

may receive you into eternal tabernacles."[428]

Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?

an, through possessing a competency, both not himself to be in straits about money, and also to give assistance to those to whom it is requisite so to do! For if no one had anything, what room would be left among men for giving? And how can this dogma fail to be found plainly opposed to and conflicting with many other excellent teachings of the Lord? "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into the everlasting habitations."[15]

Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?

And again, "Make to you friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations; "[51]

Tertullian Of Patience

How shall we fashion to us friends from mammon,[79]

Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione

Otherwise, if you think that we should give indiscriminately to all who ask, that seems to me to mean that you would give, I say not wine to him who has a fever, but even poison or a sword to him who longs for death. But how we are to understand," Make to yourselves friends of mammon,"[57]

Cyprian Treatise II On the Dress of Virgins

by the prayers of many[29]

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection

As also the Lord showed, when He said: "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations."[91]

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