Category: Religion/Spirituality
WHAT is the Sermon on the Mount? It is the moral law of the kingdom of Christ, or in other words it occupies in the New Testament the place which in the Old Testament is occupied by the Ten Commandments. It is thus an excellent example of the relation of the two divine “testam...
WHAT is the Sermon on the Mount? It is the moral law of the kingdom of Christ, or in other words it occupies in the New Testament the place which in the Old Testament is occupie...
2. CHAPTER II“And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
3. CHAPTER IIITHE Old Testament is full of descriptions of the spirit of the world, the spirit of selfish wealth with its attendant cruelty: and by contrast to this are descriptions of the op...
4. CHAPTER IVTHE character of the citizens of the new kingdom as described by our Lord was so surprising, so paradoxical, that it was inevitable the question should arise, Was He a revolutio...
5. CHAPTER VAFTER dealing thus with three of the Ten Commandments our Lord proceeds to deal with two other prescriptions or ideas of the old covenant. As He had done to the commandments, He...
6. CHAPTER VIWHEN we were considering the way in which our Lord deepens the law of love, while abrogating the law of revenge, we were obliged to notice that what He gives us is not literal e...
7. CHAPTER VIIIn regard to this great prayer, I would content myself with calling attention to the points of chief importance, and trying to explain some few difficulties, which lie in the se...
8. CHAPTER VIIITHE keynote of St. Matthew vi. is, as we have seen, this: that the true motive of the religious life in all its activities is simply the desire for divine approval. It owns one...
9. CHAPTER IXTHE seventh chapter――the last which belongs to the Sermon――is occupied with a number of accessory topics. The character of the citizen of the kingdom of God has now been portray...
10. CHAPTER XOUR Lord concludes the Sermon on the Mount with three emphatic and striking warnings. We may paraphrase them thus:――There are two ways in life, the easy way of self-pleasing and...
11. chapter xix with the words “and shall marry another” omitted, yetcarries the liberty to do so, see text given above, pp. 72, 73. Divorce, as understood by the Jews, meant divorce _a vinculo_, i.e. divorce with liberty of remarriage. Is any sa...
12. xvi. 17, 19513. xii. 22, 129Care for health, 160 “We ought to be reasonably careful and to go boldly forward in the peace of God” Church, the offer of the, 174‒5 Comfort from God, 31 Conscience, 155 “Consc...
14. i. The Narrative is given for the most part in the words ofthe Authorised Version.――ii. Brief Historical explanations and general commentary are inserted in their proper places.――iii. The chronological order of events has been followed....