The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical ExpositionGore, Charles
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The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition
Gore, Charles
Sermon on the mount
1 – Also the alteration of the original question (St. Mark x. 3),
“Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?” by the
addition of the words “for every cause” (Matt. xix. 3) is
most significant.
2 – _De Gest. Pelag._ v. (15).
3 – 2 Cor. iii. 6.
4 – Rom. vii. 9.
5 – _De Sp. et Lit._ 34.
6 – See especially St. John i. 4‒12, Rom. ii. 14‒16,
Acts xvii. 22‒31.
7 – Mill’s _Three Essays on Theism_, p. 255. Pusey’s _Univ.
Sermons_, 1864‒72, “God and human independence,” p. 10,
note 1.
8 – The Sermon with the parallel passages is given at length in
Appendix I., pp. 202 ff.
9 – If the reading, and not the margin, of the R.V. be right in
Mark x. 23, 24.
10 – St. John xiv. 26.
11 – St. Matt. vii. 28.
12 – Acts xvii. 31; 1 St. John iii. 2‒3.
13 – Wisdom ii. 12 ff.
14 – Job i. 21.
15 – 1 Tim. vi. 8.
16 – Phil. ii. 7, 2 Cor. viii. 9.
17 – 2 Cor. vi. 10, 1 Cor. iii. 21.
18 – Gal. vi. 5.
19 – Gal. vi. 2.
20 – St. Matt. viii. 17.
21 – St. John xii. 24, 25.
22 – 2 Cor. i. 4.
23 – 2 Cor. vii. 10.
24 – _Institutes_, ix. 11.
25 – 1 Peter ii. 23
26 – Ps. xxxvii. 29.
27 – St. James ii. 15‒16; 1 John iii. 16‒18.
28 – Ps. xviii. 24‒26.
29 – St. Matt. xviii. 23 f.
30 – Rom. v. 7.
31 – Job xlii. 5, St. Luke v. 8; and cf. the vision which is the
beginning of purification after death in Cardinal Newman’s
_Dream of Gerontius_.
32 – Hebr. xi. 27.
33 – St. Matt. x. 34.
34 – Rev. iii. 15‒16. These words mean, I think, not “I would
that ye, the Church of Laodicea, were either morally worse
than ye are or morally better”; but “I would that either
ye were not Christians at all or better Christians.”
35 – _C. hær._ iv. 13. 4.
36 – _Quæst. 73 in Exod._
37 – Hebr. xii. 16.
38 – This is drawn out in Appendix ii., p. 218.
39 – 2 Chron. xix. 5 8, cf. Josephus _Antiq._ IV. viii. 14.
40 – _Did._ xiv. 2.
41 – Cf. vi. 1, “in order to be seen of men,” where the phrase
is the same and describes the deliberate motive.
42 – St. Mark viii. 38.
43 – See App. iii. p. 227. Duty of the Church with regard to
divorce.
44 – And it cannot be overlooked that in one of the passages of
St. Paul’s epistles where the law of the indissolubility
of marriage is stated (Romans vii. 1‒3) he is referring to
the _Jewish_ law (see ver. 1) which confessedly admitted
exceptions, and yet he does not allude to them.
45 – Lev. xix. 12; Deut. vi. 13; Amos viii. 14.
46 – St. Matt. xxiii. 16‒20.
47 – Ch. v. 12.
48 – 2 Cor. i. 17, 18.
49 – Is. lxvi. 1; Ps. lviii. 2.
50 – St. Matt. xxvi. 63.
51 – St. James i. 20.
52 – I owe this thought, I believe, to an address given by the
Dean of Chichester.
53 – St. Mark xiv. 57‒8.
54 – St. John ii. 19.
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