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SERMON ON THE MOUNT
(for which \It. har prepared by the words robr rp3
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
whore rniioi d/fre is t"permratc the people as a whole,
illstcad of preaching an esoteric piety or an Ersene-like
retirement. The horizon of Jesus was primarily Judaisn~
at this period (Rom. 151-g) ; with a high and devout
conrciournrss of his mission, which was partly to be
nchieved through his adherents, he sets himsrlf and
then, (in there iogia) to the rrgenerarion of Judaism."
Whatever be the origin' of z46, the logia ij and irn
(x5-16) may quite well have lain side by side (otherwise
GOSPELS, 5 ,341 in the original (cp the Roman proverb.
nil$olrrlr"lr uiiliui), though not exactly in their present
form. The traces of editorial handling, however, do not
affect the substance of the passage ; its parts 61 in here
at ieasf as sell as, if not better than, in their arrangement
by Mk. and Lk. : and as a whole this didactic piece
vindicates its position in the Sermon. if any (definile
historical situation' (Weizr.) nerds to be sought for the
passage, its present rite affords a motif of sufficient
pqchological and historical in~portance.
Whilst 5,, 2o is not only an authentic saying but also
in its proper place as a vindication of Jesus against the
Mt,6 ,7-10, usp pic ion of laxity and undue mildness
mired' by his free, daring attitude to
the law, 5.8 f ir widely accepted as reprerenting a
Jewish-Chrirllm gloss rhlch evidently (cp its partial
retention in sharper form by Lk. 16x7. Mt.'s lira being
secondary, D~IIXU~~ +.s) belonged not nlerely to
but to Q. See GOSPILS, g 34". UXC. 118.; Feine,
pp. 25-35; also Moffatt, Hirtoricul A'w Testammt
(6) The abruptness wtth which the nova le* is introduced
in Lk. (827-36) contrasts unfavourably with the
NLxmeoC~.
Lk.'s indifference to the critical attitude of Jesus,
which dictared his omission of the login corresponding
to Mt. 621.~8, leaves him irith n report of the nwn /ex (6
27-36) ahich is, upon the whole, less adniirably arranged6
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.am, ~.,~6>.
a Another genvine reflection of this evilngc1ic tradition occuri
in the two in il (pr.rerred bg,Jer?m.) of the 'Gospel to the
Hehr~ws.: ('3 ;t nunquam lac, nr>r, nisi sum rratrem vestrvm
"ideri!ir in caritare, (b) inter maxima ponitur crimina, qui fratri.
rut rplrltvm mntrirtrveri,. Jerur left it to common sense ro
apply the lopion on indiscrimmats charity; thcneccssawquali.
ficarlon 31 ~xpli~itiy appended in nid. I a.
8 Re-ch rup~eltr for 840 a place in the addrcrs at the Last
Supper (after Mt. 20.8 Mk. 1015). At any rate 63pj: is irrde-
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