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"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
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A Promise for "Now"
Scholars emphasize Luke's repeated use of the word "now" to create a sharp contrast. Your present hunger and weeping are not the end of the story. Jesus gives a firm promise that this current state of suffering will be completely reversed in the future with a state of being "filled" and full of laughter. This is a message of guaranteed future vindication and joy.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That hunger now. Matthew has it, "that hunger and thirst after righteousness." Matthew has expressed more fully what Luk…
Now (νυν). Luke adds this adverb here and in the next sentence after "weep." This sharpens the contrast between present sufferings…
19th Century
Anglican
Blessed are you that hunger now.—In the second beatitude, as in the first, we note the absence of the words that seem to …
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Luke’s version of the blessings (or “Beatitudes”) is shorter than Matthew’s and is different in some particulars; he also includes a negative form …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blessed are you that hunger now Not only suffer hunger and thirst in a literal sense, in this present life, but who …
Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Matthew chapters 5 and 7. But some think that this was preached at another time a…
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