Make to your selves] This figurative manner of speaking is accommodated, and fitted to the allegory; the meaning is, by your beneficence to the poor, give them occasion to pray for you, and make your advantage of being rewarded by God. See Proverbs 19:17. the mammon of unrighteousnesse] Or, riches. Not by giving goods unjustly gotten for almes; (for all such must be restored again to their right owners) but riches are so called, because commonly, either in their getting, using, or keeping, they administer matter of sinne. when ye faile] That is, when ye dye.