The peacemakers (ο ειρηνοποιο). Not merely "peaceable men" (Wycliff) but "makkers up o' strife" (Braid Scots). It is hard e…

Blessed are the peacemakers. These are those who strive to prevent contention, strife, and war, who use their influence to reconcile oppos…

The peacemakers — Our version rightly distinguishes between the temper which is simply “peaceable” in itself ([Reference James 3:1…

They are not only passively peaceful, like the meek, who keep the peace, but actively peaceful by endeavoring to end wars and contentions, and so <…

St. Ambrose of Milan: When you have made your inner self clean from every stain of sin, so that dissensions and contentions …

Jesus’ concern in this beatitude is not with the peaceful but with the “peacemakers.” “Peace” (GK 1645) is of constant concern in both OT and NT (e…

Happy are the peacemakers: by peacemakers, He means those who not only seek peace and avoid quarrels, as far as it is in their po…

Blessed are the peace makers
Not between God and man, for no man can make his own peace with God; nor can any mere c…

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

1. The poor i…

The Evangelist, above, set forth a kind of brief preamble to Christ’s teaching; now he relates the teaching itself and its effect, namely, the admi…