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"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them and reproach you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man`s sake.
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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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Luke
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When they shall separate you (οταν αφορισωσιν υμας). First aorist active subjunctive, from αφοριζω, common verb for marking off a …
19th Century
Anglican
Blessed are ye.—See Notes on Matthew 5:10-12. The clause when they shall separate you from their company is pec…
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blessed are you when men shall hate you For the sake of Christ, and his Gospel:
and when they shall separate you…
Presbyterian
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…
