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SERMON ON THE MOUNT
memory do not seem quire adequate to account for
inversions $0 repeated. Intentional or accidental, they
are to all appearance destitute of significance.
Assuming these results and contilluing to employ
the larger report as more convenient for the purpose of
comparative analysis, we now phis to its divi~ions. AS
a working hypothesis rue may provisionally surmise that
the original scheme1 of the Sermon in Q embraced (a)
beatitudes. (b) a statement of Jesus' relation to the
Jewish law, followed by (i) a definition of his own nova
(ex, and (d) a warning against unreal, idle adherence to
it and to himself. If Lk.'s &-ye( igo( (01~) meant a
plateau among the hills, a comprehensive designation
of the Sermon both in 1.k. and Mt. might be 'the
teaching on the hill-ride' or 'the hill-teaching.'.
(a) The divergence of the beatitudes in style and
spirit accentuates at the very outset the general variation
The of the two reports. Lk.'; four beatitudes
beatitudes are followed q y four woes (after Dt.
and woes, 8711 f ): Mt.'s eight3 stand alone, save
for an expansion or application of the
eiehth. Lk.'s are more vehement isec. , oerr . . olur.1. ,.
Mt.'s (exc. 51.) employ the quieter third plui. Lk.'s
order (poor, hungry, weeping, persecuted) differs from
what verbally coirespands to it in Mt. (poor in spirit,
mournerr, meek,4 hunm . for riehteousness. . merciful,
pure in heart, peacemakers, permuled), much more
his general atnlorphere and eolour. The original
Sermon in Q ~robabkcontained beatitudes and woes in
, .
their nature is & elusive, except that it was leis restricted
and external than Lk.'s report (see below. on the
au3ience). MI. 511,f =Lk. 611f is apostolic in its
present form (cp /or my rde, the Nornr, and terms of
persecution6); especially in Mt. 5nf it ir a comment
sdch ar Mt. lover. added here to Lead over from the
beatitudes into 513.16.
As rhe crucial instance of the first beatitude indicates, the
di3crepancier of the two repam run back nor only !o the pre.
dileciions of the final editors, hut to var~il~~t rendering. of the
~exnacular in Q: ~m,yo; and i=wc