The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition. Gore Charles

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       Charles Gore

      The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066231309

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I THE SERMON

       I

       II

       III

       CHAPTER II THE BEATITUDES IN GENERAL

       CHAPTER III THE BEATITUDES IN DETAIL

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       T HE P LACE OF THE C HRISTIAN C HARACTER IN THE W ORLD .

       CHAPTER IV THE REVISION OF THE OLD LAW

       T HE L AW OF M URDER

       T HE L AW OF A DULTERY

       T HE L AW OF T AKING AN O ATH

       CHAPTER V THE REVISION OF THE OLD LAW (continued)

       T HE L AW OF R EVENGE

       T HE T REATMENT OF E NEMIES

       CHAPTER VI THE MOTIVE OF THE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

       A LMSGIVING

       P RAYER

       F ASTING

       CHAPTER VII THE LORD’S PRAYER

       CHAPTER VIII UNWORLDLINESS

       CHAPTER IX CHRISTIAN CHARACTERISTICS

       T HE U NCRITICAL T EMPER

       R ESERVE IN C OMMUNICATING R ELIGIOUS P RIVILEGES

       I MPARTIAL C ONSIDERATENESS

       CHAPTER X FINAL WARNINGS

       T HE T WO W AYS

       C HARACTER THE O NE T HING N EEDFUL

       E NDURANCE THE T EST

       APPENDICES

       APPENDIX I

       APPENDIX II THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CHRISTIANS

       APPENDIX III THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH IN REGARD TO DIVORCE

       INDEXES

       I. PERSONS AND AUTHORITIES CITED

       II. SUBJECTS

       III. TEXTS ELUCIDATED

       IV. APHORISMS—“SEED THOUGHTS”

      THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

CHAPTER I

       THE SERMON

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      I

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      WHAT is the Sermon on the Mount? It is the moral law of the kingdom of Christ, or in other words it occupies in the New Testament the place which in the Old Testament is occupied by the Ten Commandments. It is thus an excellent example of the relation of the two divine “testaments,” or rather covenants, to one another. There is a sentence of St. Augustine’s on this subject which it would be useful for every one to have constantly in mind. “We do wrong,” he says, “to the Old Testament if we deny that it comes from the same just and good God as the New. On the other hand, we do wrong to the New Testament if we put the Old on a level with it.”2 This is a general statement of the relation between the two covenants, and it applies especially to the moral law. The moral