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"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
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Commentators explain that being "pure in heart" goes beyond outward actions. It refers to inner moral purity, sincere motives, and a single-minded devotion to God, free from deceit and hypocrisy. Scholars note this isn't about achieving sinless perfection on earth, but about a heart that has been cleansed by God's grace through faith and now desires to be holy.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Blessed are the pure in heart. That is, whose minds, motives, and principles are pure. Who seek not only to have the external actions<…
Shall see God (τον θεον οψοντα). Without holiness no man will see the Lord in heaven (Hebrews 12:14). The Beatific Vis…
19th Century
Anglican
Pure in heart — Here, as with the poor in spirit, the noun determines the region in which this purity is to be found: the “heart,”…
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Baptist
For they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart.
It is a most blessed attainment to have such a longing for purity as to …
“Pure [GK 2754] in heart” has two interrelated meanings. It means inner moral purity as opposed to merely external piety (cf. Dt 10:16; [Reference …
16th Century
Protestant
Happy are they who are of a pure heart. We might be inclined to think that what Christ states here aligns with everyone's judgment. Pu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blessed are the pure in heart Not in the head; for men may have pure notions and impure hearts; not in the hand, or action, or in o…
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…
