“ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. ”
Blessed are they that mourn - This is capable of two meanings: either, that those are blessed who are afflicted with the loss of friends or possessions, or that they who mourn over sin are blesse...
The Beatitudes ( cf. Luke 6:20-23 ). These nine sayings (eight if we reckon Matthew 5:10-12 as one, or regard Matthew 5:11 f. as having originally stood elsewhere; seven if we omit Matthew 5...
Blessed. Note the Figure of speech Anaphora (App-6). The eight Beatitudes are to be contrasted with and understood by the eight "woes" of Matthew 23:13-33 . See App-126.
4. Happy are they that mourn. This statement is closely connected with the preceding one, and is a sort of appendage or confirmation of it. The ordinary belief is, that calamities render a m...
DISCOURSE: 1288 THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE HUMBLE Matthew 5:1-4 . And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth, an...
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that mourn - That is, those who, feeling their spiritual poverty, mourn after God, lamenting the iniquity that separated t...
Blessed are they that mourn— "Either for their own sins, or for other men's, and who are steadily and habitually serious; they shall be comforted, most solidly and deeply in this world, and etern...
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. [Lachmann, Tischendorf, and Tregelles place this verse after Matthew 5:5 ,...
The Beatitudes . Properly speaking, the beatitudes are seven in number, Matthew 5:10-11 ; Matthew 5:12 , forming an appendix. These three vv. being counted in, the number of beatitudes is raised,...
They that mourn. — The verb is commonly coupled with weeping ( Mark 16:10 ; Luke 6:25 ; James 4:9 ; Revelation 18:15-19 ). Here, as before, there is an implied, though not an expressed, limitati...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Opening Words of Grace and Truth Matthew 5:1-9 There are many doors into the life of blessedness. It does not depend on outward possessions, such as worldly goods or high birth. There is no sou...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
COMFORT FOR THE MOURNERS ‘Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.’ Matthew 5:4 Not all sorrow wins this blessedness. There is a sorrow which is hard, which cherishes resent...
Blessed are they that mourn ,.... For sin, for their own sins; the sin of their nature, indwelling sin, which is always working in them, and is a continual grief of mind to them; the unbelief of the...
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Ver. 4. Blessed are they that mourn ] For sin, with a funeral sorrow (as the word signifieth), such as is expressed by crying and weepi...
Blessed [or happy ] are they that mourn Namely, for their own sins and those of other men, and are steadily and habitually serious, watchful, and circumspect; for they shall be comforted Even...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
The Sermon on the Mount. 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn...
The world is mistaken in accounting the jocund and merry companions the only happy men; their mirth is madness, and their joy will be like crackling of thorns under a pot: but those are rather the ha...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT PART 1 REQUIRED ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR UNDER THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (5:1-7). Having travelled widely throughout Galilee, and having proclaimed the need for repentance...
CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
Matthew 5:1-10 I. The Beatitudes open that discourse which, whatever may be the difficulties of particular parts of it, has always been recognized as the most important part of the New Testament....
Matthew 5:1 . And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem...
Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
They that mourn. The mourners who are not entitled to the blessings here named I. Those who indulge the sorrow of discontent. II. The inordinate sorrow for worldly losses. III. Sorrow for...
EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Closely connected with this thought is the next: Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted. The disciples are subject to conditions and circumstances which cause, which bring about,...
2 Corinthians 1:4-7 ; 2 Corinthians 7:10 ; 2 Corinthians 7:9 ; Ezekiel 7:16 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Isaiah 12:1 ; Isaiah 25:8 ; Isaiah 30:19 ; Isaiah 35:10 ; Isaiah 38:14-19 ; Isaiah 51:11 ; Isai...
The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great...
They that mourn — Either for their own sins, or for other men's, and are steadily and habitually serious. They shall be comforted — More solidly and deeply even in this world, and eternally in heav...