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
Moreover when ye fast, be =St. Luke xi. 34‒36.=
not, as the hypocrites, of a sad
countenance: for they disfigure _The lamp of the body is thine
their faces, that they may be eye: when thine eye is single,
seen of men to fast. Verily I thy whole body also is full of
say unto you, They have received light; but when it is evil, thy
their reward. But thou, when thou body also is full of darkness.
fastest, anoint thy head, and Look therefore whether the light
wash thy face; that thou be that is in thee be not darkness.
not seen of men to fast, but of If therefore thy whole body be
thy Father which is in secret: full of light, having no part
and thy Father, which seeth in dark, it shall be wholly full of
secret, shall recompense thee. light, as when the lamp with its
bright shining doth give thee
Lay not up for yourselves light._
treasures upon the earth, where
moth and rust doth consume, and
where thieves break through and =xvi. 13.=
steal: but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where _No servant can serve two
neither moth nor rust doth masters: for either he will hate
consume, and where thieves do the one, and love the other; or
not break through nor steal: for else he will hold to one, and
where thy treasure is, there will despise the other. Ye cannot
thy heart be also. The lamp of serve God and mammon._
the body is the eye: if therefore
thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light. But =xii. 22‒34.=
if thine eye be evil, thy whole
body shall be full of darkness. _Therefore I say unto you, Be
If therefore the light that is not anxious for your life, what
in thee be darkness, how great ye shall eat; nor yet for your
is the darkness! No man can serve body, what ye shall put on. For
two masters: for either he will the life is more than the food,
hate the one, and love the other; and the body than the raiment.
or else he will hold to one, Consider the ravens, that they
and despise the other. Ye cannot sow not, neither reap; which
serve God and mammon. Therefore I have no store-chamber nor barn;
say unto you, Be not anxious for and God feedeth them: of how
your life, what ye shall eat, or much more value are ye than the
what ye shall drink; nor yet for birds! And which of you by being
your body, what ye shall put on. anxious can add a cubit unto his
Is not the life more than the stature? If then ye are not able
food, and the body than the to do even that which is least,
raiment? Behold the birds of why are ye anxious concerning
the heaven, that they sow not, the rest? Consider the lilies,
neither do they reap, nor gather how they grow: they toil not,
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