Money has a role in the lives of individuals, peoples and nations.
One of the first dates I found in the Bible is the book of Genesis: In Gen .13:2 livestock, gold and silver were used as money (money commodity that has value in itself - intrinsic value).
Gn .17:12,13 "And eight days old shall be circumcised every male among you throughout your generations, born at home, and bought money to any foreigner, not of thy seed. "
"baby should be circumcised at home, and bought for your money , and will be my covenant in your flesh for an everlasting covenant."
The practice of circumcision was adopted to serve as a signal of incorporation the covenant of Abraham . In the above passage speaks of people bought for money, this refers to one of the functions of money "means of change." The money enables the exchange of more agile and easier than barter.
The money comes from the Latin word "deniers", the name of a coin. Denarius was a Roman silver coin equivalent to the Greek drachma, referring to salary, a daily laborer (Mt . 20:2). In Gospel of Mark 6:37 referred the need to be raised by the disciples, to have two hundred dinars (equivalent to eight months' wages) to feed a 5 000 men.
Among some coins of ancient Jews have weights: Talent, shekel, Beka, Gera, Persian coins: daric , Greek coins: Tetradrachm, didrachma, drachma, Leptin (white) Roman coins: Aureus, Denarius, Asarion , Quadrant.
Another reflection that deserves our money is that this is harmless, ie harmless. not harmful. The Bible teaches that man is not lost money as such, but the "love of money." Philarguria of phileo , love, and arugros , silver, appears in 1 Timothy 6:10 "because root of all evil is the love of money, the this craving that some have wandered from the faith, and pierced in many pain "; among other aspects that are generated by the" love of money is greed, greed, usury (increased interest) that will divert people and results in distress and disruption, as well as range of social tragedies every day we see that happen around us, so to avoid getting involved in situations that affect us adversely , the Bible teaches us the proper use of material things.
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