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LUKE 16:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 16:8Luke 16:10
“And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.”
I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings — use worldly wealth (tou mamōna tēs adikias, mammon of unrighteousness, unreliable wealth) to gain friends: the positive application of the manager's strategy. Money used to create relationships of generosity produces the welcome into eternal dwellings when the money is gone. The friends who welcome into eternal dwellings are those who have been served by the generous use of wealth.

Church Fathers on Luke 16:9

The steward whom his Lord cast out of his stewardship is nevertheless commended because he provided himself against the future. As it follows, And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; we ought not however to take the whole for our imitation. For we should never act deceitfully against our Lord in order that from the fraud itself we may give alms.

Augustine · 4th century

But because the Gentiles say that wisdom is a virtue, and define it to be the experience of what is good, evil, and indifferent, or the knowledge of what is and what is not to be done, we must consider whether this word signifies many things, or one. For it is said that God by wisdom prepared the heavens. Now it is plain that wisdom is good, because the Lord by wisdom prepared the heavens. It is said also in Genesis, according to the LXX, that the serpent was the wisest…

Origen · 3rd century

The children of light and the children of this world are spoken of in the same manner as the children of the kingdom, and the children of hell. For whatever works a man does, he is also termed their sun.

Bede · 8th century
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