food. He who is daily fed with Christ’s righteousness is blessed indeed! 7) Blessed the merciful; for just they shall be treated mercifully. The first four beatitudes look toward God, the next three toward men. These treat of three virtues which mark the godly as blessed. “The merciful” are, of course, the same persons as those referred to in the previous beatitudes. Luther well says that in all the beatitudes faith is presupposed as the tree on which all the fruit of blessedness grows. This, then,
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