Falsely, for my sake (ψευδομενο ενεκεν εμου). Codex Bezae changes the order of these last Beatitudes, but that is immaterial. What…

Revile you. Reproach you; call you by evil and contemptuous names; ridicule you because you are Christians. Thus they said of Jesus, that …

Blessed are you — Here, for the first time, the beatitude is uttered not as a general law, but as the portion of the listening dis…

Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, when men revile you, and per…

Rabanus Maurus: The preceding blessings were general; He now begins to address His discourse to those who were present, forete…

These two verses, switching from third person to second, apply the force of the last beatitude to Jesus’ disciples. Verse 11 extends the persecutio…

When they shall cast reproaches on you (Luke 6:22); when men shall hate you, and separate you, and load you with reproache…

Ble ed are you when men shall revile you
These words are particularly directed to the disciples of Christ, and are d…

Our Savior here gives eight characteristics of ble ed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian.

The prophets were killed because they did not deny the faith, but instead proclaimed the truth; John the Baptist was killed and was a martyr becaus…