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The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition

Chapter 49: IV. APHORISMS—“SEED THOUGHTS”
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Aimed at ordinary readers, the author offers a practical, devotional exposition of Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5–7, unpacking the Beatitudes, the Christian revision of Mosaic law, motives for citizens of God's kingdom, the Lord's Prayer, unworldliness, Christian virtues, and final warnings. Each section interprets the original text to suggest meditative applications for daily life rather than technical criticism, and includes appendices with parallel Gospel passages, a Christian rendering of the Ten Commandments, and discussion of the Church's approach to divorce. The tone emphasizes moral formation, spiritual discipline, and how scriptural precepts shape conduct and prayer.

III. TEXTS ELUCIDATED

Job i. 21, 25

Ps. lviii. 2, 82

Isa. lxvi. 1, 82

Ezek. xxix. 1820, 118

St. Matt.

x. 34, 45

xvi. 17, 195

xviii. 1518, 168

St. Mark xi. 24, 177

St. John

xi. 245, 31

xv. 7, 178

xvi. 24, 178

xx. 23, 169

Rom.

v. 7, 42

vii. 13, 76

vii. 4, 9

viii. 14, 170

1 Cor.

iii. 21, 27

iii. 223, 155

vi. 7, 96

2 Cor.

iii. 6, 3

vi. 10, 27

viii. 9, 25

Gal. vi. 5, 30

Phil. ii. 7, 25

Heb.

xii. 16, 57

xii. 22, 129

St. Jas. ii. 1516, 101

1 St. John iii. 17, 101

Rev. iii. 1516, 49 n.

IV. APHORISMS—“SEED THOUGHTS”

Atonement, must = redemption, 199

Attitude of others to us, 39

“On the whole we can determine men’s attitude to us by our attitude to them”

Body and spirit must be treated together, 123

Care for health, 160

“We ought to be reasonably careful and to go boldly forward in the peace of God”

Church, the offer of the, 1745

Comfort from God, 31

Conscience, 155

“Conscience is only a faculty for knowing God and His will. It is certain, unless it is educated, to give wrong information”

Cost of duty, 188

Dealing of God with us, 401

Duty to self, 114

“Our duty towards ourselves is, in a word, to make the best of ourselves”

God’s dealings, 401, 85

“God dealt with men gradually”

Health, care for, 160

Helping others, 46

“You are to help men by being unlike them”

How to make people better, 106

Imperfection, God’s treatment of, 55

“God does not despair of what is imperfect because it is imperfect. He views every institution (or person) not as it is, but as it is becoming”

“Judge not,” 163, 168

“Make the best of everything and every person”

“From all sides you get as you give”

Law of Correspondence in prayer, 148

Law of Prayer, 149

“We must not ask that God will violate His general laws in our private interest”

Motive, real test of, 151

“Name of Christ,” in the, 140, 142

“To pray in the name of Christ means to pray in such a way as represents Christ”

“That impulsive prayer which springs simply out of our own needs is not the prayer ‘in the name of Christ’”

Peace, and truth, 44

“Peace can never be purchased in God’s way by the sacrifice of truth”

Pharisaism of the Publican, 66

Reward, 118

“Every kind of conduct gets its reward on the plane of its motive”

Safe life, 6970

“A safe life is better than a complete life”

Sermon on the Mount and Socialism, 183

Test of real motive, 151

Truth, and peace, 44

Truthfulness, Christ’s teaching on, 75

Value of the individual to God, 182

“Every one in God’s sight counts for one; and nobody counts for more than one”

World, definition of, 21

“It is human society organizing itself apart from God”

These Indexes the author owes to the kindness of the Rev. W. E. ASHDOWN.

Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.