nations to keep everything “I have commanded you,” the thought is probably of the Sermon on the Mount. Thus it is also the central content of the Christian missionary preaching. The evangelist does not give a summary statement of the theme of his first discourse; the concluding comment in 7:28* simply refers to it as “sayings” (λόγοι). The current designation “Sermon on the Mount” comes from Augustine (Sermone Domini in Monte). Since the mountain was important for the evangelist (it reminded the