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Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew is a translation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew given in Paris in approximately the year 1270. This is the first ever English translation of this major work. It will be a useful commentary, especially as an aid for preaching sermons. Numerous explanations and cross references to other works of St. Thomas are given in the text....

of God; and secondly, He relates the beatitude which pertains to love of neighbor, where it is said, Blessed are the peacemakers, etc. He says, therefore: Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God. There is, firstly, here a literal question. For we hold that God cannot be seen; “No man hath seen God at any time” (1 Jn. 4:12). And lest someone might say that, although no one may see God in the present, one will see Him in the future, the Apostle eliminates this possibility in 1 Tim. 6:16:
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