Mat 6:19-24 | Family | STEP | Treasurers ; those things which men most love, and which they regard as their chief good.

Matthew 6:19-24

Treasurers; those things which men most love, and which they regard as their chief good. Single; healthy and clear, to discern objects aright. Evil; diseased, and so not seeing things as they are.

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness; the Saviour now applies to the human mind the figure of the eye which he has just used. If the eye of thy soul be diseased, so that earthly treasurers appear to it better than heavenly, "how great is that darkness!" Serve; yield to or regard supremely two opposite objects, as are God and this world.

Mammon; wealth, all earthly possessions. What a man regards supremely is his treasure, or his God. If it be any created thing, he has another god before Jehovah, an is, in this sense, an idolater.