“ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. ”
Blessed are the pure in heart - That is, whose minds, motives, and principles are pure; who seek not only to have the external actions correct, but who desire to be holy in heart, and who are so....
Blessed [are] the (c) pure in heart: for they shall see God. (c) Fitly is this word "pure" joined with the heart, for as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and...
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...
pure in heart. Compare Psalms 24:4 ; Psalms 73:1 .
8. Happy are they who are of a pure heart We might be apt to think, that what is here stated by Christ is in accordance with the judgment of all. Purity of heart is universally acknowledg...
DISCOURSE: 1292 PURITY OF HEART Matthew 5:8 . Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God . THERE is nothing in which mankind more generally imagine happiness to consist than in the u...
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Pure in heart - In opposition to the Pharisees, who affected outward purity, while their hearts were full of corruption and defilement. A prin...
Blessed are the pure in heart— Dr. Blair supposes that this may refer to the expectation which the Jews had of possessing themselves of beautiful captives in the wars by which they fancied the Mess...
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the pure in heart [ hoi ( G3588 ) katharoi ( G2513 ) tee ( G3588 ) kardia ( G2588 ) = baariym (...
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,...
Pure in heart. — Here, as with the poor in spirit, the noun determines the region in which the purity is to be found — the “heart” as representing desires and affections, as the “spirit” represents...
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...
PURITY OF HEART ‘Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.’ Matthew 5:8 The Beatitudes portray the ideal of the Christian life. They lay down the conditions of something more th...
Blessed are the pure in heart ,.... Not in the head; for men may have pure notions and impure hearts; not in the hand, or action, or in outward conversation only; so the Pharisees were outwardly rig...
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Ver. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart ] That wash their hearts from wickedness, that they may be saved, Jeremiah 4:14 . Not their hands o...
The pure in heart Those whose hearts are purified by faith; who are not only sprinkled from an evil conscience by the blood of Jesus, but cleansed by the Spirit of God from vain thoughts, unprofita...
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 men of the world bless those who appear pure and holy to men, and put on a vizard and mask of purity, though they be but painted sepulchres, and their hearts be as cages of all unclean birds: but...
God Has Already Blessed His True People By Producing In Them A Right Attitude of Heart, And An Indication Of The Blessings Both Present and Future That Will Result from It (5:3-9). As we consider...
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...
The pure in heart. Purity of heart I. Purity of heart demands our attention. 1. It implies a change of heart. 2. It implies that the faculties of the soul are purified. 3. It implies t...
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...
But hypocritical behavior will not stand the test of His scrutiny: Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. A mere outward purity in keeping the ceremonial injunctions of the Law is no...
1 Chronicles 29:17-19 ; 1 Corinthians 13:12 ; 1 John 3:2 ; 1 John 3:3 ; 1 Peter 1:22 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Acts 15:9 ; Ezekiel 36:25-27 ; Genesis 32:30 ; Hebrews 10:22 ; Hebrews 12:14 ; H...
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...
The pure in heart — The sanctified: they who love God with all their hearts. They shall see God — In all things here; hereafter in glory.