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Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. The World English Bible translates the passage as: "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. The Novum Testamentum Graece text reads:
5 And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 6 And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. 7 And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. 8 And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 And blessed are all the peacemakers ...
The Greek word makarios cannot adequately be rendered as "blessed" nor "happy", as it is rather 'a term of congratulation and recommendation', [3] that can also mean "satisfied" (as in Psalm 1:1). [4] The word purity is not believed to refer to one who was ritually cleansed, but rather to internal spiritual purity as noted by the "in heart ...
Ambrose: When you have done thus much, attained both poverty and meekness, remember that you are a sinner, mourn your sins, as He proceeds, Blessed are they that mourn.. And it is suitable that the third blessing should be of those that mourn for sin, for it is the Trinity that forgives s
The statement "and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" is usually taken to mean that the Church will never become extinct. [ 6 ] [ 21 ] Some Protestant evangelical groups adhere to the interpretation that it is Peter's "confession" itself that is "the rock on which will be built the Church of Jesus", i.e., the church will be built ...
Augustine: Let the unyielding then wrangle and quarrel about earthly and temporal things, the meek are blessed, for they shall inherit the earth, and not be rooted out of it; that earth of which it is said in the Psalms, Thy lot is in the land of the living, (Ps. 142:5.) meaning the fixedness of a perpetual inheritance, in which the soul that ...
A curious child, ever reviled. By everyone except her own father. With a quite bewitching face. Splendidly selfish, charmingly helpless. Excellent fun til you get to know her. Then she runs like ...
That peace only is blessed which is lodged in the heart, and does not consist only in words. And they who love peace, they are the sons of peace. [6] Hilary of Poitiers: The blessedness of the peacemakers is the reward of adoption, they shall be called the sons of God. For God is our common parent, and no other way can we pass into His family ...