The four beatitudes are, to my mind, expressly addressed to those who are about to take service on Christ's side.
Parallel with these beatitudes run the denunciations of woe.
The interpretation also of thesebeatitudes depends on the fact that our Lord is speaking to the disciples.
The beatitudes in like manner commended themselves to men's hearts; they felt that if there was a God in the world, it ought to be as our Lord said it was.
There are fourbeatitudes and four denunciations, corresponding each to each; this numerical symmetry assists recollection.
The Mount of Beatitudes thus stands before us as the Sinai of the New Testament, giving its laws to all peoples and to all times.
The Alsatians of the poorer classes who could at that time have repeated the Lord's Prayer or the Beatitudes in French would not have been difficult to count.
It is for that reason that the thought of suffering appears at the end of the Beatitudes and in the closing petition of the Lord's Prayer.
His ministry He closes the Beatitudes with a blessing upon the persecuted; if in Mark viii.
Only since the appearance of Dalman's Grammar of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic in 1894 have we really known what was the dialect in which the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount were spoken.
The beatitudes correspond to the former, the passage before us to the latter.
Commenced with beatitudes, it ends with woes, because the blessings offered in the beatitudes have been rudely rejected and trampled underfoot.
The beatitudes are, so to speak, the home affairs of the kingdom of heaven; the passage which follows is occupied with foreign relations.
These eight beatitudes are the diatonic scale of heaven's music.
From the Beatitudes we have already learned that the blessedness of the children of the kingdom is to consist not in the abundance of the things they possess, but in qualities of soul, possessions in the realm of the unseen.
That this was intended seems evident from the first and the last of the beatitudes both ending with the emphatic words "theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Indeed, as will be shown later on, the beatitudes would have wiped us from the face of the earth centuries ago had not our forefathers devised means of circumventing them without openly questioning them.
Between such wise prudence and the immolation of the Beatitudes a wide gulf is fixed.
The beatitudes require, he says, that, instead of trying to do so, the Christian shall devote his energies to helping others and shall give no thought to himself.
The Beatitudes here recorded are four in number, while Matthew mentions eight or nine; but Luke adds four woes, each one of which is in striking contrast with the parallel Beatitude, vs.
It is the blending of the beatitudes of Bethany with the artistic enjoyments of Weimar, causing the favored circle to forget all cares, and giving them strength for those duties which make up the main business of human life.
The husband was extravagant and self-indulgent; the wife panted for beatitudes it was not in his nature to give.
In the study of the Beatitudes one Sunday, I asked the members of an adult class which they considered first in importance.
In the first and third of the Beatitudes He exalts humility--a virtue difficult to cultivate, and even to retain after one has cultivated it.
He answered: The commandments are as many as the plagues of Egypt; but the beatitudes are a triple image of the Holy Trinity.
Holy Epiphanius was asked why the commandments are ten, and the beatitudes nine.
Besides the beatitudes there are other acts that follow from the gifts when properly used by the soul.
The beatitudes are means which, under the light infused by God, are valued at their true worth as leading finally to happiness in its more complete sense.
In the Valleys of Rest we shall weary no more, And the music of mirth with its solace shall sing All the songs of delight the beatitudes bring!
The fourth of Luke's Beatitudes contrasts the treatment received from men by the subjects and the enemies of the kingdom.
These Beatitudes have a solemn warning for all, and if we really believed them, our lives would be revolutionised.
The pulpit is constantly lauding what it calls the beatitudes of Jesus, and challenging the world to parallel them if it can.
It is not religion, with its glorious dreams crowned with the promised beatitudes of heaven, though martyred saints and prophets have given their lives to confirm its faith and hopes.
But I do not agree with them, for I believe every soul is a spiritual atom of deity and, however ignorant and depraved, may become wise and good, and enjoy the beatitudes of an immortal existence.
The Liturgy of St. Chrysostom provides that the Beatitudes shall be sung on Sundays in room of the third antiphon.
One of the few really good suggestions made by the Commissioners was that of using the Beatitudes in the Office of the Holy Communion as an alternate for the Decalogue.
The beatitudes are not the immediate revelation of His Godhead, they are much more the impressive testimony of His manhood.
Writing of the beatitudesin our Lord's Sermon on the Mount that fresh and penetrating writer says: "When our Savior speaks to us concerning what constitutes our true blessedness He is simply describing His own experience.
The other Beatitudes convey these lessons: The meek suppress all feelings of anger and humbly submit to whatever befalls them by the Will of God; and they never desire to do evil for evil.
The Beatitudes are a portion of Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, and they are so called because each of them holds out a promised reward to those who practice the virtues they recommend.
What are the Beatitudes and why are they so called?
What is the meaning and use of the Beatitudes in general?
We walk on holy ground; above A sky more holy smiles; The chant of the beatitudes Swells down these leafy aisles.
Invite the eye to see and heart to feel The beauty and the joy within their reach,-- Home, and home loves, and the beatitudes Of nature free to all.
The broad, fair fields of God he saw Beyond the bigot's narrow bound; The truths he moulded into law In Christ's beatitudes he found.
Ye see the curse which overbroods A world of pain and loss; I hear our Lord's beatitudes And prayer upon the cross.
So, then, here we have a characteristic lodged in the very heart of this series of Beatitudes which refers wholly to our demeanour to one another.
THE divine simplicity of the Beatitudes covers a divine depth, both in regard to the single precepts and to the sequence of the whole.
In closing we recur to the thought of all theseBeatitudes as a chain and the beginning of all as being penitence and faith.
The bulk of the remaining Beatitudespoint onward to a future; this deals with the present.
Now all these promises appended to the Beatitudes have a double reference--to the certainty of the present, and to the perfection of the future.
All these Beatitudes are God's gifts, and this is God's gift too.
The promises attached to the Beatitudes are in each case the results which flow from the quality, rather than the rewards arbitrarily given for it.
But for us the words have a double reference, as all the promises annexed to these Beatitudes have.
But this one sets the top stone, the shining apex, upon the whole temple-structure which the previous Beatitudes had been gradually building up.
An ordinary superficial view of these so-called Beatitudes is that they are simply a collection of unrelated sayings.
Harnack is undoubtedly correct in saying, "The beatitudes certainly circulated in various recensions from the beginning.
But if anything stood in Q, these five beatitudes stood there, only not in Luke's recension, but in Matthew's.
From both these considerations it is reasonable to conclude that these two beatitudes were added to Q before it reached Matthew.
Yet the beatitudes common to Matthew and Luke are by all scholars attributed to Q.
Aside from this it is hardly to be assumed that Matthew invented any beatitudes on his own account.
If I Peter iii, 14, be allowed to be a direct reference to this beatitude, this will heighten the probability that all these beatitudes were added to Q before its use by Matthew.
Yet the two beatitudes sound like two versions of the same one.
The five omitted beatitudes are additions to the teachings of Jesus, manufactured on the basis of Old Testament exemplars.
In the last and outermost row were sculptured, for the first and only time, the fourteen Heavenly Beatitudes first described by S.
The Rhythm in the Beatitudes is equal Rhythm of sense and Rhythm of sound: Rhythm of music and Rhythm of meaning.
Often I read the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount and feel their truth in the blood-sweating tune of their Rhythm--Rhythm unspeakable and ecstatic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beatitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
