revelation, be it apocalyptic or otherwise, that has provided Jesus with insight into the ways of God’s judgment. Apocalyptic vision reports often provide reaffirmations of the divine principles of justice, but one can hardly argue that those visions discover them for the first time. The SM and the SP include no vision reports but simply assume that Jesus knows these principles. Consequently, the final authority on which the Beatitudes are based is God’s justice, a concept fundamental to the SM (see
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