Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], х aforisoosin (G873)] - whether from Church-fellowship, by excommunition, or from their social circles-both hard to flesh and blood.
And shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Compare the following: "Being reviled we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we entreat; we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day" (1 Corinthians 4:12-13). Observe the language of our Lord in regard to the cause of all this ill treatment. "For the Son of man's sake," says He in Luke 6:22: "For My sake," says He in Matthew 5:11: "For righteousness sake," says He in the immediately preceding Luke 6:10. Thus does Christ bind up the cause of Righteousness in the world with the reception of Himself.