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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.

statement by the Prophet: Thy justice is as the mountains of God;2 and this illustrates well that one teacher only, one who alone is competent to teach doctrines so weighty, teaches on a mountain. Further, He teaches sitting down—which has reference to the dignity of the teaching office. And His disciples come unto Him that for the hearing of His words they might be the nearer even in body who were approaching moreover in soul to fulfill His precepts. And opening His mouth He taught them, saying.
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