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St. Augustine: The Lord’s Sermon on the Mount is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written between AD 393 and 396, when Augustine was a priest at Hippo, Augustine addresses the true intent of Jesus’ beatitudes, and the intentions behind the legendary sermon.

and as if referring to this bushel measure it is said in another place: With what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again;36 or because temporal concerns, which are carried on in the body, are begun and transacted within a definite measure of time—which is perhaps the significance of the “bushel”—whereas the eternal and spiritual are constricted to no such limitations, for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.37 Therefore a person puts his candle under a bushel when he dims and hides
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