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James Tissot, The Beatitudes Sermon, c. 1890, Brooklyn Museum. The Beatitudes (/ b i ˈ æ t ɪ tj u d z /) are blessings recounted by Jesus in Matthew 5:3-10 within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, and four in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke, followed by four woes which mirror the blessings.
The title of a song ("The Meek Shall Inherit") in the Little Shop of Horrors musical. The title of a song on the Frank Zappa album, You Are What You Is ("The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"). The songs "Visions of the Night" and "Walking in your Footsteps" by The Police each contain the line, "They say the meek shall inherit the Earth."
The Beatitudes are a key element of this sermon, and are often expressed as a set of blessings. Jesus presents the Beatitudes as a list of those he considered "blessed," or "fortunate," (due to his arrival and their subsequent invitation into the "Kingdom of Heaven"), as opposed to Ben Sira's list of "blessed" peoples (Ben Sira 25:7-11). The ...
Matthew 5:12 is the twelfth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.It is the tenth verse of the Sermon on the Mount.This verse is generally seen as part of an expansion of the eight Beatitude, others see it as the second half of the ninth Beatitude, a small group feel it is the tenth Beatitude and thus brings to a close a second Decalogue.
Matthew 5:18 is the eighteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount.In the previous verse, Jesus has stated that he came not to destroy the law, but fulfill it.
[10] (Abbey had drawn from an earlier poem, "The Faithful Engineer," by William Shakespeare Hays. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] ) Also known by its first line "Life is like a mountain railroad", the song has been recorded by Boxcar Willie , Carter Family , Bill Monroe , Chuck Wagon Gang , The Oak Ridge Boys , Tennessee Ernie Ford , Merle Haggard , Johnny Cash ...
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Charles Fillmore became a devoted student of philosophy and religion. [6] [1] In 1889, Charles and Myrtle began publication of a new periodical, Modern Thought, notable among other things as the first publication to accept for publication the writings of the then 27-year-old New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson. In 1890, they announced a ...