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"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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Mercy's Full Scope
Commentators explain that biblical mercy is a broad, active compassion. It includes forgiving those who wrong you, generously helping the poor and suffering, and showing concern for the spiritual well-being of others through prayer and guidance. It is described as a disposition of the heart, not just an occasional act.
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Matthew
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Blessed are the merciful. That is, those who are so affected by the sufferings of others that they are inclined to alleviate them…
Obtain mercy (ελεηθησοντα) "Sal win pitie theirsels" (Braid Scots). "A self-acting law of the moral world" (Bruce).
19th Century
Anglican
The merciful —The thought is the same as that afterwards embodied in the Lord’s Prayer. Those who are merciful toward their fellow…
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Baptist
For they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: Those who are kind, generous, sympathetic, ready to forgive those who h…
This beatitude is akin to Ps 18:25. Mercy embraces both forgiveness for the guilty and compassion for the suffering and needy. No particular object…
16th Century
Protestant
Happy are the merciful—this paradox, too, contradicts the judgment of humanity.367
The world considers those people to b…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blessed are the merciful Who show mercy to the bodies of men, to those that are poor, indigent, and miserable, in th…
Our Savior here gives eight characteristics of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian.
The poor …
13th Century
Catholic
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…
