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The Forms of Persecution
Commentators explain that the persecution Jesus describes is not vague. It involves specific, escalating actions: social hatred, exclusion from community and worship (like excommunication from the synagogue), public insults, and having one's name—like "Christian"—defamed as evil. This suffering was a tangible reality for early believers.
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AT Robertson
On Luke 6:22
When they shall separate you (οταν αφορισωσιν υμας). First aorist active subjunctive, from αφοριζω, common verb for marking off a …
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 6:22
19th Century
Bishop
Blessed are ye.—See Notes on Matthew 5:10-12. The clause when they shall separate you from their company is pec…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 6:22
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 …
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John Gill
On Luke 6:22
17th Century
Pastor
Blessed are you when men shall hate you
For the sake of Christ, and his Gospel:
and when they shall separate you…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 6:20–26
17th Century
Minister
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…