# The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition

Author: Gore, Charles, 1853-1932

Genre: Category: Religion/Spirituality

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57722

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## Summary

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 “testaments,” or rather covenants, to one another. There is a sentence of St. Augustine’s on this subject which it would be useful for every one to have constantly in mind. “We do wrong,” he says, “to the Old Testament if we deny that it comes from the same just and good God as the New. On the other hand, we do wrong to the New Testament if we put the Old on a level with it.”[2] This is a general statement of the relation b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/10/index.md)
- [i. The Narrative is given for the most part in the words of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/9/index.md)
- [xii. 22, 129](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/1/index.md)
- [chapter xix with the words “and shall marry another” omitted, yet](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/2/index.md)
- [xvi. 17, 195](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sermon-on-the-mount-a-practical-exposition-57722/chapters/12/index.md)