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The Gospel of Matthew is treasured as the Gospel of the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus' teaching sets it apart from the other Gospels. It is precious to generation after generation of Christians because of its fusion of gospel and ethics, of faith and morality. The commentary proceeds unit by unit, rather than verse by verse, to emphasize what each passage of Matthew means to the author of the...

religious reasons (the voluntarily poor) nor to those who are deficient with respect to spirit (the dispirited) but rather to those poor who manifest the attitude (the “spirit”) appropriate to their condition, namely, humble dependence on God’s grace. An instructive parallel is provided by Isa. 57:15, where it is declared that God dwells with “the lowly of spirit” (see also Ps. 51:17). “Theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” an assurance granted both to the poor and to the persecuted (v. 10), brackets
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