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Make to yourselves friends
Compare Virgil, “Aeneid,” vi., 664:. Among the tenants of Elysium he sees “those who, by good desert, made others mindful of them.”
Of the mammon of unrighteousness (ἐκ τοῦ μαμωνᾶ τῆς ἀδικίας)
The same idiom as in Luk 16:8, steward of injustice. Compare unrighteous mammon, Luk 16:11. Mammon should be spelt with one m. It is a Chaldee word, meaning riches. It occurs only in this chapter and at Mat 6:24. “Of the mammon” is, literally, by means of. In the phrase of unrighteousness, there is implied no condemnation of property as such; but it is styled unrighteous, or belonging to unrighteousness, because it is the characteristic and representative object and delight and desire of the selfish and unrighteous world: their love of it being a root of all evil (1Ti 6:10). Wyc., the riches of wickedness.
Ye fail (ἐκλίπητε)
But all the best texts read ἐκλίπῃ, “when it (the mammon) fails.”
They may receive
The friends.
Habitations (σκηνάς)
Lit., tents or tabernacles.