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"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, Whose sins are covered.
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Commentators explain that when God 'forgives' and 'covers' sin, it doesn't mean the sin is annihilated or never happened. Rather, God, in His grace, chooses to hide it from His sight, no longer remembering it or holding it against the believer. As one scholar puts it, the sin is covered 'as a shroud,' completely concealed from the eye of divine justice. This act is the essence of justification.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Blessed. Happy are they: they are highly favoured. (See Barnes on Matthew 5:3).
Whose sins are covered. This means they ar…
Blessed (μακαριο). See on Mt 5:3.
Are forgiven (αφεθησαν). First aorist passive indicative of αφιημ, witho…
19th Century
Anglican
Forgiven.—The stress is upon this word; “whose sins are not abolished, but forgiven; not annihilated, but covered up, removed from…
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Baptist
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he has something…
Though the case of David is not strictly parallel to that of Abraham and is treated only briefly, it is clear from the phrase “the same thing” that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Saying, blessed are they These words are cited from (Psalms 32:1), and contain the proof of the happines…
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To meet the views of the Jews, the apostle first refers to the example of Abraham, in whom the Jews gloried as their most renowned forefather. Howe…
13th Century
Catholic
After dismissing the glory the Jews took in the law, through which they considered themselves superior to the Gentiles, the Apostle now d…
