inheritance of both earth and heaven, comfort, satisfaction and mercy, the vision and the experience of being the children of God. We are ready now to look at the Beatitudes in detail. Various classifications have been attempted. They are certainly not a random catalogue but, in Chrysostom’s words, ‘a sort of golden chain’.21 Perhaps the simplest division is to see the first four as describing the Christian’s relation to God, and the second four the Christian’s relations and duties to other people.