Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 5:8
The pure in heart — The sanctified: they who love God with all their hearts. They shall see God — In all things here; hereafter in glory.
The pure in heart — The sanctified: they who love God with all their hearts. They shall see God — In all things here; hereafter in glory.
Verse Matthew 5:8. _PURE IN HEART_] In opposition to the Pharisees, who affected outward purity, while their hearts were full of corruption and defilement. A principal part of the Jewish religion con...
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART - That is, whose minds, motives, and principles are pure; who seek not only to have the external actions correct, but who desire to be holy in heart, and who are so. Man...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
THE BEATITUDES (_cf._ Luke 6:20). These nine sayings (eight if we reckon Matthew 5:10 as one, or regard Matthew 5:11 f. as having originally stood elsewhere; seven if we omit...
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART. The Jew, under the tuition of the Pharisees, cared little for the state of the heart so that outward forms were duly kept. Religion consisted chiefly in ablutions and th...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has struc...
PURE IN HEART. Compare Psalms 24:4; Psalms 73:1....
_pure in heart_ Purity is a distinguishing virtue of Christianity. It finds no place even in the teaching of Socrates, or in the system of Aristotle. Pure _in heart_"non sufficit puritas ceremonialis....
The transposition of Matthew 5:4-5 to their order in the text is on the authority of the leading textual critics without however conclusive MS. support. The logical gradation of thought is in favour o...
ΚΑΘΑΡΟῚ ΤΗ͂Ι ΚΑΡΔΊΑΙ. Purity is a distinguishing virtue of Christianity. It finds no place even in the teaching of Socrates, or in the system of Aristotle. Pure _in heart_ ‘non sufficit puritas ceremo...
VER 8. "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD." Ambrose, in Luc., vi, 22: The merciful loses the benefit of his mercy, unless he shews it from a pure heart; for if he seeks to have wh...
_JESUS' TEACHINGS ABOUT BLESSEDNESS MATTHEW 5:1-12:_ "And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, s...
ΚΑΡΔΊΣ (G2588) _dat. sing._ сердце. Сердце — это средоточие внутренней жизни человека, отсюда берут начало все его духовные способности и проявления (TDNT). ΌΨΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G...
DISCOURSE: 1292 PURITY OF HEART Matthew 5:8. _Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God_. THERE is nothing in which mankind more generally imagine happiness to consist than in the uncontr...
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART— Dr. Blair supposes that this may refer to the expectation which the Jews had of possessing themselves of beautiful captives in the wars by which they fancied the Messiah...
A. THE CHARACTER AND BLESSINGS OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Parallel: Luke 6:20-26) TEXT: 5:3-12 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4. Blessed are they that mo...
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART [ hoi (G3588 ) katharoi (G2513 ) tee (G3588...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was proba...
THE BEATITUDES. Properly speaking, the beatitudes are seven in number, Matthew 5:10; Matthew 5:12, forming an appendix. These three vv. being counted in, the number of beatitudes is raised, according...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
PURE IN HEART. — Here, as with the poor in spirit, the noun determines the region in which the purity is to be found — the “heart” as representing desires and affections, as the “spirit” represents th...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
οἱ καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ : τ. καρδ. may be an explanatory addition to indicate the region in which purity shows itself. That purity is in the heart, the seat of thought, desire, motive, not in the outward...
_The Beatitudes_. Some general observations may helpfully introduce the detailed exegesis of these golden words. 1. They breathe the spirit of the scene. On the mountain tops away from the bustle and...
OPENING WORDS OF GRACE AND TRUTH Matthew 5:1-9 There are many doors into the life of blessedness. It does not depend on outward possessions, such as worldly goods or high birth. There is no soul of m...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
Blessed [are] the (c) pure in heart: for they shall see God. (c) Fitly is this word "pure" joined with the heart, for as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and p...
The clean of heart are either those who give themselves to the practice of every virtue, and are conscious to themselves of no evil, or those who are adorned with the virtue of charity. For nothing is...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_PURITY OF HEART_ ‘Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.’ Matthew 5:8 The Beatitudes portray the ideal of the Christian life. They lay down the conditions of something more than ha...
8._Happy are they who are of a pure heart _We might be apt to think, that what is here stated by Christ is in accordance with the judgment of all. _Purity of heart _is universally acknowledged to be t...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART,.... Not in the head; for men may have pure notions and impure hearts; not in the hand, or action, or in outward conversation only; so the Pharisees were outwardly righte...
Blessed _are_ the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Ver. 8. _Blessed are the pure in heart_] That wash their hearts from wickedness, that they may be saved, Jeremiah 4:14. Not their hands only,...
Mat. 5:1-11. "And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain; and when He was set, His disciples came unto Him: and He opened His mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit:...
Mat. 5:8, 9. "Blessed are _the pure in heart_: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Christians should be first 'pure,' then 'peaceable:'...
_The pure in heart_ Those whose hearts are purified by faith; who are not only sprinkled from an evil conscience by the blood of Jesus, but cleansed by the Spirit of God from vain thoughts, unprofitab...
PURE IN HEART; freed from the dominion and pollution of sin. SEE GOD; have right views of him, and enjoy his presence here and hereafter....
But hypocritical behavior will not stand the test of His scrutiny: Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. A mere outward purity in keeping the ceremonial injunctions of the Law is not...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
3-12 Our Saviour here gives eight characters of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian. 1. The poor in spirit are happy. These bring their minds to their condition,...
The men of the world bless those who appear pure and holy to men, and put on a vizard and mask of purity, though they be but painted sepulchres, and their hearts be as cages of all unclean birds: but...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV As, therefore, when that which is perfect is come, we shall not see another Father, but Him whom we now desire to see (for "blessed are the pure in heart: for they s...
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GOD HAS ALREADY BLESSED HIS TRUE PEOPLE BY PRODUCING IN THEM A RIGHT ATTITUDE OF HEART, AND AN INDICATION OF THE BLESSINGS BOTH PRESENT AND FUTURE THAT WILL RESULT FROM IT (5:3-9). As we consider the...
‘Blessed ones, the pure in heart, for they will see God.' Those whom God has blessed will also be pure in heart. Central to the thought here is Psalms 24. The ones who would ascend the hill of the Lor...
Matthew 5:8. THE PORE IN HEART. Either a single virtue, or total freedom from sin. The former is here meant, _i.e._ , a simplicity of heart, or ‘that steady direction of the soul toward the Divine lif...
Matthew 5:3-11. The beatitudes constitute an ascending series. The same thoughts are found in the Old Testament, but only since Christ has been found there. BLESSED. The word, first applied to God,...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
The scene (Matthew 5:1), the formal preface of the Evangelist (Matthew 5:2); the opening description of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3-10); their relation to the world ...
SHALL SEE GOD (τον θεον οψοντα). Without holiness no man will see the Lord in heaven (Hebrews 12:14). The Beatific Vision is only possible here on earth to those with pure hearts. No other can see...
Matthew 5:1 I. The Beatitudes open that discourse which, whatever may be the difficulties of particular parts of it, has always been recognized as the most important part of the New Testament. It is,...
Matthew 5:3 Introductory Beatitudes. I. The first Beatitude pronounces a blessing on those who are Poor in Spirit. Let the limitation, the "in spirit," be carefully borne in mind. Poverty itself is...
Matthew 5:8 To see God that has been the deep desire of living souls through all time. Men of earnest spirits have ever felt, instinctively, that the highest blessedness of life must consist in the v...
Matthew 5:7 I. "Blessed are the merciful." The object of the Beatitudes is to bring out one particular quality, without commending the other qualities which may exist in the same character. We see man...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,-_ Our Saviour soon gathered a...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:_ For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem mos...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:_ You notice that the Preacher sat down, and that his disciples stood around him....
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
HAPPY ARE THE PURE IN HEART. Those who listened to the Pharisees looked carefully at externals, but ignored the internal. Jesus demands that the heart be kept clean. _See_ 1 Peter 4:1-6. THEY WILL SEE...
_The pure in heart._ PURITY OF HEART I. Purity of heart demands our attention. 1. It implies a change of heart. 2. It implies that the faculties of the soul are purified. 3. It implies the purity...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:8 In contrast to Jewish traditions that emphasized ritual purity, Jesus taught that purity of HEART was most important (see note on v. 28)....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:3 The Beatitudes (from Latin for “blessed, happy”) all begin with “Blessed are...” These short statements summarize the Sermon on the Mount. ⇐...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
JESUS GIVES THE BEATITUDES MATTHEW 5:1-12; LUKE 6:17-26; MATTHEW 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:...
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
1 Chronicles 29:17; 1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:3;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
Note here, 1. The duty required and called for, PURITY OF HEART AND LIFE: the first expressed, the other included: for. clean heart will be accompanied with. clean life. Where there is. principle of g...